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Authored by: Novajo on Nov 16, '03 12:08:13AM

Sure it's your system and you do what you want. If you want to modify scripts, it is your right to do so. I just wouldn't do it if not necessary. And there is a significant difference between modifying system configuration files in /etc versus scripts in /usr/bin and others. For instance, there are hooks to do daily and weekly jobs that are already provided: create daily.local or weekly.local to add you own stuff to the cron job.

That said, the man page is out of sync and the suggestion I made actually does not work as mentionned elsehwere on this page, which blows because an up-to-date locate script is very powerful.

So go nuts: modify locate.updatedb. Personnally, I would instead get a newer version and install in /usr/local/.



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