Doug Crompton on 16 Jan 2005 03:39:09 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] what is this?


Yes that is what it was. The cron crap has become so difficult to follow
and the logging could certainly be better. Oh well... thanks...

Doug

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Stephen Gran wrote:

> It is a daily cronjob, probably run from cron.daily, and probably
> updatedb.  Take a look ate /etc/cron.daily/updatedb (or find - I forget)
> for a line that looks like:
>
> cd / && updatedb --localuser=root
>
> Give or take.
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