[arm-allstar] Found updatedb to be running daily

[David McGough]

Hi Larry,

Typically if I can't find something in the filesystem, I just manually run 
the updatedb command from a bash shell prompt, which only takes a few 
seconds to complete.

Since the database (mlocate.db) is static, it continues to work until the 
next time I've moved things around and need to update again.


73, David KB4FXC


On Sat, 20 Mar 2021, "Larry Mollica via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> FYI
> The hamvoip.org page says that the “locate 
daily update is turned off. 
> This is to avoid unnecessary writes to the SD card.”, but I found that 
> updatedb has been running every day:
> 
> # ls -l /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db
> -rw-r----- 1 root locate 1615159 Mar 18 00:00 /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db
> 
> (Version is RPi2-3-4 Version 1.6-16)
> 
> I’m not too familiar with systemctl but I found the timer files and renamed them, 
> /usr/lib/systemd/system/updatedb.timer.DISABLE
> /usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/updatedb.timer.DISABLE
> 
> ...then did a systemctl daemon-reload. It has ceased the daily updates. 
> (Again, not too familiar with systemctl so there may be a more preferred 
> method to do this. Feel free to educate me. :)
> 
> Alternately I suppose the db file could be moved to /tmp/ or some RAM 
> based directory, but it’s not like there are a lot of file changes going 
> on so I’m fine with using it when needed.
> 
> Larry
> WA6FSJ
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