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Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update"

On 30 Mar 2004, at 16:11, Jim Rankin wrote:
>
> On Mar 29, 2004, at 3:48 PM, Alastair Houghton wrote:
>
>> The locate database is very useful, but IMO it isn't something you
>> should rely on from code, at least not on Mac OS X.
>>
> Would it be possible for the application to tell locate to update it's
> database, or set the cron job for the user? First time might be slow,
> but should be quick after that, right?

The cron job is already set-up, but it doesn't run until 4:30am on
Saturday (if I remember correctly). Most Macs are asleep or off at that
time. I don't think it's a good idea for apps to tinker with existing
cron jobs as a rule, although I'm happy enough for apps to install new
cron jobs of their own if necessary. Put another way, my
daily/weekly/monthly cron jobs are already reconfigured, and I would be
annoyed if an application messed that up or changed the configuration
without asking first.

As for speed, I'm not sure how fast the locate.updatedb command is I
would have thought it would be slow *every* time, not just the first,
since it still has to search every directory in every filesystem to see
if there are any new files. That, I would imagine, is why it only runs
once a week and in the very hours of the morning at that.

Kind regards,

Alastair.

--
http://www.alastairs-place.net

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References: 
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Steven Palm <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Reed Hedges <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Eugene Lee <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Jim Rankin <email@hidden>)



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