[BlueOnyx:14293] Re: updatedb strange behavior

[Steven Howes]

On 22 Jan 2014, at 14:02, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com> wrote:
> updatedb is run as part of the daily cron to update the locate database. 
>   That is used whenever you want to use the locate command to find a 
> filename.   It's a normal task that does take some resources.   The idea 
> is that the resources are chewed up when you are least likely to need 
> them (ie: when the daily cron is run, default at 4AM.)
> 
> If you don't want to update the locate database automatically every 
> night, then you can always remove the cron job.   To do that, just 
> remove mlocate.cron out of /etc/cron.daily/
> 
> I hope that helps.

Doesn’t explain it hiding from ps though. That’s a bit odd.

Steve