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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] slocate suggestion
From:       Liam Quin <liam () holoweb ! net>
Date:       2002-02-05 22:00:19
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:06:53PM +0100, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> Could the slocate cronscript in /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron be changed
> to exclude directories in /mnt:
[...]
> 
> This will stop many complaints from people asking why there hard drive
> is trashing and slowing down the system just after they boot to
> Mandrake.

A better option would be to have the slocate updater run with lower
priority (nice --19 ?) and to have it wait for 10 minutes or more
after boot to start up.

I *want* /mnt/windows indexed, who wouldn't?

Liam

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