[BlueOnyx:14295] Re: updatedb strange behavior

[Gerald Waugh]

On 01/22/2014 09:23 AM, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> On 01/22/2014 08:19 AM, Steven Howes wrote:
>> 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.
> [root at centos-pc ~]# updatedb &
> [1] 19093
> [root at centos-pc ~]# ps aux | grep updatedb
> gerald    2779  0.0  0.0  24972  7688 ?        S    Jan21   0:00
> gpk-update-icon
> root     19093  5.5  0.0   4084   764 pts/2    D    09:21   0:00 updatedb
> root     19095  0.0  0.0   4356   728 pts/2    S+   09:21   0:00 grep
> updatedb
BTW best way to execute is copy these lines and paste into the shell,
ensure you get the last \n by copying the blank line below text.
updatedb &
ps aux | grep update

-- 
Gerald