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On Monday 07 May 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: |
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> Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> > /etc/cron.daily/slocate |
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> > |
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> > contains instructions for updating the database, using updatedb. |
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> > Move it to /etc/cron.weekly or whatever if you want. |
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> Better copy it, and replace the body of the daily one with |
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> '## Placeholder, do not delete.' |
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> Otherwise a revision of the slocate ebuild will put the script back |
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> into the daily dir without saying anything. Quite annoying. The |
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> placeholder will cause an etc-update message. |
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> Benno |
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Or CONFIG_PROTECT /etc/cron.* to protect the whole lot from the same |
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thing with any other ebuild as well |
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There can be few things more annoying than to have some arb ebuild nuke |
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your carefully crafted crontabs... |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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