[NTLUG:Discuss] Debian hard drive crankiness

[Kenneth Loafman]

The primary difference between cron and anacron is that anacron will catch 
up on the cron jobs if the machine has been off a while, where cron will 
just skip anything that is past its due time.

If your machine is not updated very often, then no, there should be no ill 
effects if this is not run every day.  The only problem will be that you 
cannot locate files easily using the locate command if they were added after 
the last time you updated.  For those of us that cannot remember the 
directory structure de jour, locate is a very handy tool.

...Ken


Moses McKnight wrote:

> Thanks for the help.  I have been somewhat confused by anacron vs. cron 
> and didn't know quite where to look.  I set it to run earlier and will 
> see if that helps.  Would there be any ill effects if I didn't run 
> updatedb/slocate?
> 
> Moses
> 
> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
>> On Debian the times for the cron jobs seem to be random between 
>> setups. Check the /etc/crontab for /etc/cron.daily stuff and change 
>> the time to something more convenient.
>>
>> ...Ken
>>
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>> Moses McKnight wrote:
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>>> Howdy all,
>>>
>>> I run Debian unstable, and a while back after some upgrade/install 
>>> the hard drive now cranks every morning about 7:30 AM for about 20 
>>> minutes rendering the computer unusable in the meantime.  I think 
>>> it's the updatedb program updating the database for finding files 
>>> quickly.  How do I turn this off, uninstall it, or at least tell it 
>>> to run at 1:00 AM or something?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Moses McKnight
>>>
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