Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (507 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sunday, 2009-07-19 at 08:45 +0100, Peter Nikolic wrote:

> well that was down to cron the way suse sets up cron is terrible AFAIAK  i
> have always and always will change that lot around to suit myself so never ran
> into problems with the updatedb program  (which is the  updater for the locate
> DB)   .
>
> If you just blindly accept the installed settings you are going to run into
> slowdown (no where near as bad as the darn dog beagle thou)  the suse idea of
> cron as has been stated on the lists or an regular basis is pants to say the
> least with timings that are to say the least weired erring on strange  who
> would start an DB update in the middle of the working afternoon  when the
> machine is in full use  maybe there is some logic in it i cant find any    ,
> These sort of things either need to run overnight  (as mine do) or they need
> to be easily set to run during the lunch break or similar .

You can select your preferred time in /etc/sysconfig/cron:

DAILY_TIME="22:10"


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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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