How to disable man-db update in Mageia

An irritating feature in Mageia, when man-db update eats a lot of CPU every now and then. To disable the feature via Terminal

su chmod -x /usr/libexec/man-db nano /etc/sysconfig/man-db

… the contents with disable (no)

# Set this to "no" to disable man-db update triggered by installation # of any package containing manual pages SERVICE="no"


# Set this to "no" to disable daily man-db update run by

# /etc/cron.daily/man-db.cron

CRON="no"

# Options used by mandb, we use "-q" as default, too much noise without it OPTS="-q"

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