Feature changed by: Cristian Rodríguez (elvigia) Feature #308353, revision 5 Title: get rid of mandb cron job openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable + Requested by: Cristian Rodríguez (elvigia) Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: /etc/cron.daily/suse-do_mandb runs every day to create the man page indexes and the whois databae even if no package was installed. This exercises the hard disk quite a bit. A smarter solution would be to update the index and whois db each time a manpage gets added or removed, just like it's done with info pages. Discussion: #1: Per Jessen (pjessen) (2009-11-18 15:52:08) The suse-do_mandb script actually checks to see if there are any files newer than index.db before it runs mandb. #2: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) (2009-11-18 16:01:43) (reply to #1) Oh, ok. Then maybe that's either inefficient too or I am indeed updating packages often. Which is not too unlikely if one runs YOU regularly. The cronjob still hits at an unpredictable, inconvenient times. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308353