[TriLUG] Its broke and I gotta fix it

[Jeremy P]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Rob Carlson wrote:

> Your problems probably are hardware,  but I've been woken in the middle 
> of the night by my HD whiring, and it turned out to be updatedb running. 
>  (This is what allows you to run "locate")  check your root crontab.  su 
> - root, crontab -l... Curious if the time for it's running is the time 
> you heard the whirring.  Quite a few distros put updatedb in crontab by 
> default...

In Red Hat Linux and its derivatives, updatedb is started by the file
called "slocate.cron" in /etc/cron.daily/

There are several /etc/cron.*/ directories that you should peruse to see
what is being run by "root's crontab" -- and of course check "crontab -l
-u root" also.

--Jeremy