[arm-allstar] Found updatedb to be running daily

[David McGough]

Hi,

To disable updatedb from running via systemd, from the bash prompt run:


systemctl disable updatedb


73, David KB4FXC



On Sun, 21 Mar 2021, Robert Cloutier wrote:

> David,
> 
> The point that Larry made was that the HAMVoIP system automatically updates
> the following file every day at midnight.
> /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db
> 
> What is the best way to stop this from happening to prevent wearing out my
> SD card?
> 
> WO4ROB
> 
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 14:06 "David McGough via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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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