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Re: prelinking speed
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:05:49AM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Jakub,
> So one should add something like this to /etc/cron.weekly...
> Jack
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> LOCKFILE=/var/lock/prelink.lock
>
> [ -f $LOCKFILE ] && exit 0
> trap "{ rm -f $LOCKFILE; exit 255; }" EXIT
> touch $LOCKFILE
> prelink -ma
> exit 0
Ideally more complicated, e.g. to be run daily it could check
timestamp of rpm database and if it is newer than a day old, it
would trigger prelink daily, otherwise it would only prelink weekly.
Jakub