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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 5:53 am 
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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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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:46 am 
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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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