[OpenBSD 4.1] run locate.updatedb after login

noir911 · 11-02-2007, 06:28 PM

I log in via xdm as a normal user and want to run /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb only once in the background each time I log in. Is there any way to do this?

I tried to put it in /etc/rc.local - but it's painfully slow every time I boot the system.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

ocicat · 11-03-2007, 12:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noir911

I tried to put it in /etc/rc.local - but it's painfully slow every time I boot the system.

...& if you run it in the background?

complich8 · 11-03-2007, 10:09 AM

You'd definitely be better off putting that in cron... is there any compelling reason that you can't?