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sblantipodi



Joined: 13 May 2009
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Location: Italy

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 4:53 am    Post subject: makewhatis on crond...  

Hi,
centos schedule for daily crond.daily this command:
makewhatis -u -w

do you think that this is an useful job?
may I remove it?
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unixfool



Joined: 08 Apr 2004
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Location: VA

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 7:46 am    Post subject:  

This depends on if you use the 'whatis' command. If you've never used it and will never use it, I see no need to have cron run it. Now, it is not a process-intensive thing to run (if it is run daily, to scale the work), so you can probably leave it running with minimal impact.
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