Sendmail

[Choppa Kumar]

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

[Stuart Browne]

'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.

[Choppa Kumar]

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

[SELVAM_1]

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

[Choppa Kumar]

Thank you very much