What file(s) do I edit to stop updatedb and du from starting?
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Assuming you are running Redhat Linux...

Take out the file:
/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron/slocate.cron
To stop updatedb from running nightly at 4:00am.

To remove "du" do a:
rm /usr/bin/du

Thank you, Skeptical

Um. Why would you want to remove du? It is one of the most useful tool in web hosting business... :)

updatedb and du consume much of the CPU.
Each can go up to 99% on two (2) 1000Mhz.


Right now I am still hesitating to remove slocate.cron and du until I find out more information on slocate.cron and du through search engines. Do you know of any advantage/disadvantage of removing slocate.cron and du?

Could you have meant "su"?

I am pretty sure they are updatedb and du, because I have to remove them everyday.

There is definitely something else wrong with your server.

Let me see if it comes from mrtg.

RH 7.1, PSA v.1.3.1, and MRTG are the only three (3) installed to the server.

I can understand you want to stop slocate from running, however on typical server, it only runs for a few minutes every day. So, unless you have a huge server that running slocate would consume lots of time, I don't think it is necessary. And you will be unable to use locate if you disable slocate.

However, why du? It doesn't get executed periodically, unlike slocate. There are a lot of other program in your Linux box that able to consume resources more than du, but they are pretty much harmless since they don't get executed automatically.