Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:34:14 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Disallowed redirect??? Message-ID: <20010405163414.A1637@everest.wananchi.com>
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Hello, I had a problem with updating the locatedb. I ran locate.updatedb with the option 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null via cron and ended up having THOUSANDS of locate.updatedb jobs generated. The machine almost went down. I am running 4.3-RC. Is there a better way to run this process daily, say at 2.00am, without this horror that I saw? I don't know how to make this simpler. Is there a way? I had to reboot the box to help out, imagine ... TIA -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286, 00100-NAIROBI, KE. Conway's Law: In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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