Darin Adler wrote:
on 3/30/01 11:37 AM, Ben Ford at ben kalifornia com wrote:
What makes medusa better than slocate? Updatedb doesn't kill my box the
way medusa does.
Updatedb makes a list of file names. Medusa's indexing daemon indexes all
directory information, including things like modification dates as well as
file names, and also strings found inside text files.
Is there a way to configure medusa to only index when I want it to?
Medusa currently creates an index each night as a cron job. Cron allows you to
let jobs run daily, weekly, or monthly,
by moving the cron job in /etc/cron.daily to the appropriate directory. If you
only want medusa to create an index when you
specifically ask, you can turn medusa off, and use the request index feature in
nautilus, or run "medusa-indexd" by hand when you want to create a new index.