Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate

Jon Masters
2006-03-05T21:50:48Z

On 3/5/06, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/5/06, Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm fed up with those finds running whenever I power on.

> You run updatedb at boot time?

No, but said box will catch up cron jobs on boot.

> Why not run it from cron at night like most people do?

That's not the point. It usually does. I'm interested to know if
anyone has written a daemon that can sit and just do this
synchronously on my desktop - then not only do I /not/ have to run
updatedb every day but I can also have a locate that is always up to
the minute.

Jon.