topic Re: Sendmail in Operating System - Linux

Sendmail

Choppa Kumar — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 01:43:29 GMT

Can some one help me ,what is this service is meant ,because it utilising 90% of CPU.
/usr/bin/updatedb -f

Re: Sendmail

Stuart Browne — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 02:04:47 GMT

'updatedb' is the process which updates the 'slocate' database on a nightly basis.

If you don't use the 'locate' database, then you can remove the execute permissions from the file '/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron' (or just remove it) to stop it from running.

That being said, it really shouldn't run for more than a few minutes on a nightly basis, unless a whole lot of changes are occuring.

Re: Sendmail

Choppa Kumar — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:07:00 GMT

Very nice to see your reply .on our set up linux box as SMTP gateway and we are restricting the user to send SMTP mails using /etc/aliases database .Can you pl advice we can go ahead to stop the same

Re: Sendmail

SELVAM_1 — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:37:57 GMT

Oh yes , you can stop that service. That is nothing to do with Sendmail.

Re: Sendmail

Choppa Kumar — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 04:34:32 GMT

Thank you very much