On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 15:26:19 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> Martin Gregorie  writes:
>> On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:28:19 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>> Martin Gregorie  writes:
>>>> I have a cronjob set up on my Fedora systems to run updatedb every
>>>> night, but I run it manually with a "sudo updatedb" command on my RPi
>>>> before running 'apropos' or 'locate' (the latter is a fast file
>>>> finder).
>>>
>>> Note that there is no need for these manual steps on Debian (or
>>> Raspbian).
>>
>> I presume that's due to atd?
>
> No, the packages contain cron jobs that keep things up to date.
>
Fedora uses both crond and atd: crond runs jobs as they come due but
misses jobs if it wasn't running at that time. atd runs all the jobs that
crond missed and runs them as some short random time after Lunux was
booted or comes out of suspension/hibernation.

I though all Linux distros used this same duality and I was right, but
some distros don't install atd by default. Fedora does and Raspbian
doesn't.

The 'at' package, which includes at and atd, is now installed on my RPi,
so updatedb will now get run automatically a bit more often. I'm no
longer surprised that updatedb has never been automatically run here
because all daily jobs are run at 06:30 and AFAICR my RPi has never been
running at that time.

Related point: I thought 'locate' was installed by default for Raspbian,
but it ain't. It turns out its in the 'locate' package and I'd installed
that a long time ago.


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