Bug 181230 – sys-apps/rlocate Make poll interval adjustable

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rudi Lippert 2007-06-07 18:57:59 UTC]

In order to reduce power consumption on laptops, I wrote a patch to make the refresh interval of rlocated adjustable by a command line parameter (-i or --interval). Most people won't need the rlocate database updated every 2 seconds.
The patch changes src/rlocate-daemon/rlocated.c to introduce and document the -i parameter and doc/man/rlocated.1 for the same documentation.
I also included new conf.d and init.d files to make use of the parameter.

[Comment 1 Rudi Lippert 2007-06-07 18:59:00 UTC]

Created attachment 121427 [details, diff]
Patch to be applied to rlocate-0.5.5 source

[Comment 2 Rudi Lippert 2007-06-07 18:59:51 UTC]

Created attachment 121428 [details]
new /etc/init.d/rlocate

[Comment 3 Rudi Lippert 2007-06-07 19:00:40 UTC]

Created attachment 121430 [details]
new /etc/conf.d/rlocated

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-06-07 19:00:59 UTC]

http://rlocate.sourceforge.net/#author_and_bugs

[Comment 5 Rudi Lippert 2007-06-07 20:37:23 UTC]

yup, i already posted this at sourceforge and emailed it to the author. adding this to 0.5.5-r1 might be faster than waiting for 0.5.6 upstream, though.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2007-10-06 13:37:44 UTC]

rlocate-0.5.6 now in the tree