Hi: I've just reinstalled Slackware 12.1 and have just noticed slocate is running. I used to disable it and run updatedb whenever I consider it convimient. But I think to remember there was a cron file in charge of running it. Now my whole disk is being searched and I do not know how to stop it (I don't won't to use kill). Could you tell what is the script run at boot time responsible for this behavior (in case it is a script).

EDIT: but what may make slocate to spontaneously run? If it were updatedb I would understand it.

It's /etc/cron.daily/slocate

For what it's worth, slocate was replaced by mlocate in the -current tree, and it's much less resource-intensive than slocate. You might consider building it yourself on that machine and replacing slocate. Note that you should *not* install the package from the -current tree; you need to build it on a 14.2 system. Here's the build script and associated files: https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackw...rce/a/mlocate/

EDIT: to answer your own 'EDIT' part, I don't know how that could happen - for "locate" itself to be running, some user must have run it, as far as I'm aware.

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Alright, and thanks. As I ran the locate command to locate slocate, maybe ps found the instance I was running. On the other hand I ran grep on /etc and couldn't find an instance of the string slocate. Perhaps ... Oh! Of course: the string in /etc/cron.daily is "updatedb", and not slocate. That's why grep deceived me.

Having been lucky to obtain a precise answer, I'd like you to tell me (I'm still running 14.1) if there is much difference with 14.2. As regards general resources and specially in disk space. If it is not to abuse.

EDIT: first thing I had done when I saw the disk activity was to look into /etc/rc.d. Of course I couldn't find anything. Those files have /etc directly as there parent.

14.2 is pretty incremental from 14.1, but that's a matter of perspective, I suppose, and my perspective is certainly not shared among the entire userbase.
This is about the best summary I can give you: https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackw..._AND_HINTS.TXT