From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 5 6:35:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 091FF37B43F for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 06:35:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.22 #2) id 14l9tu-00014A-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2001 16:34:14 +0300 Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:34:14 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FBSD-Q Subject: Disallowed redirect??? Message-ID: <20010405163414.A1637@everest.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , FBSD-Q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD everest.wananchi.com 4.3-RC FreeBSD 4.3-RC X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 4:30PM up 1 day, 8 hrs, 3 users, load averages: 0.12, 0.10, 0.08 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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