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Some people wish to have updatedb only include mount points which are
automatically mounted by "mount -a", which mounts devices listed in
/etc/fstab.
The following lines may be added to /etc/updatedb.conf to exclude
non-automatic mount points from updatedb. Add before the
"export PRUNEPATHS" line in /etc/updatedb.conf.
# mount points not to be scanned (regexp matching lines into /etc/fstab)
EXCLUDE_MOINT_POINTS=noauto
EXCLUDE_PATH=`awk "/^#/ {next}; /$EXCLUDE_MOINT_POINTS/ {print \\$2}" < /etc/fstab | tr '\012' ' '`
PRUNEPATHS="$PRUNEPATHS $EXCLUDE_PATH"
This suggestion is due to Eric Delaunay
<delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>
> The problem is NOT
> updatedb, rather it's actually caused by the "checksecurity" call in
> /etc/cron.daily/standard. The easy fix for this is to mount your NFS
> stuff nosuid and nodev so it ignores them.
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My systems slows down everyday at bootup, how can I stop the daily
updatedb-invocations?
Edit /etc/updatedb.conf or even /etc/cron.daily/find. Both files
are dpkg conffiles and you changes won't be overwritten.
Examples:
* Run weekly instead of daily:
Add this to the head of /etc/updatedb.conf
#----------
if [ -d /var/cache/locate ] ; then
# locatedb is younger than 7 days
[ -n "`find /var/cache/locate -name locatedb -mtime -7`" ] && exit 0
fi
#----------
To run every other day on would use "2" instead of "7".
* Disable updatedb completely:
Either delete /etc/cron.daily/find or add "exit 0" as the second line of
/etc/cron.daily/find
* On a laptop only update the locate database if running on AC-power:
Add "on_ac_power || exit 0" as the second line of /etc/cron.daily/find.
If you are using anacron for running cron.daily there is no need for
changing /etc/cron.daily/find, anacron will by default not execute the
jobs when the system is running on battery.
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