Moving locate DB from weekly to daily?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com
Wed Jul 9 11:06:08 PDT 2003


Dragoncrest <dragoncrest at voyager.net> writes:

> 	Other than just copying the script "310.locate" from the
> weekly folder to the daily folder, what else do I need to do in order
> to move the rebuilding of the locate database from weekly to daily?  I
> want to rebuild it daily if possible.  I doubt that'll put a lot of
> extra load on my machine as it does the rebuild and other cron tasks
> around 3am anyways.  Any suggestions are welcome.

That should work fine, although if it were I, I'd use a different
number because there's already a "310.*" script in periodic/daily.
This isn't important to the computer, of course, but it may save
some human confusion in the future.


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