On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Ted Unangst wrote:

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> Are you sitting around feeling bored because you don't know how to
> help out OpenBSD?  Did your requests for info on where to start come
> back with unhelpful responses?  I've got just the thing for you: an
> idea!
> 
> Cron runs the weekly update script every Saturday at 3:30am.  If you
> use a laptop or other desktop, your computer probably isn't on then.
> So the locate and whatis databases never get updated unless you run it
> by hand.
> 
> So somebody should figure out a way to handle this for desktop machines.

sysutils/anacron

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Antoine