[Ilugc] How to stop updatedb

From: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Date: Sun Sep 5 15:45:39 2004

ashwin kesavan iyengar wrote:

Hi,
I once ran updatedb, from then on its running regularly & this spins
up my Hard Disk a lot. I don't use locate often. I want to stop updatedb
deamon from running & whenever it runs it should ask for my
confirmation. I am using RHL9 on PIII processor. How do i achieve this.
I am using X window.

It runs out of cron

Find which cron file it runs out of (cron.daily i think) and disable it
there by commenting it out

srs

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