Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 20:48:33 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Justin Wolf' <jjwolf@bleeding.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: weekly locate rebuild Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105A94@site2s1>
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As far as I can tell this has been fixed in -STABLE as I used to have the
exact same problem, and I no longer have it anymore.
-Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Wolf [SMTP:jjwolf@bleeding.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 11:40 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: weekly locate rebuild
>
> This is a lame question, but... when my machine tries to automagically
> rebuild the locate db, it fails. I modified the 310.locate script in
> /etc/periodic/weekly as such:
>
> if [ -x /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb -a -f $locdb ] ; then
> echo ""
> echo "Rebuilding locate database:"
> echo "touching... "
> touch ${locdb};
> echo "chowning... "
> chown nobody ${locdb};
> echo "chmoding... "
> chmod 644 ${locdb}
> echo "running... "
> echo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb | nice -5 su -fm nobody
> echo "last chmod... "
> chmod 444 ${locdb}
> echo "done"
> fi
>
> And I get this output:
>
> Rebuilding locate database:
> touching...
> chowning...
> chmoding...
> running...
> find: .: Permission denied
> 0
> last chmod...
> done
>
> When I run it manually via 'periodic weekly' it works fine with no errors
> (as root). Does the root crontab not run as root? Any suggestions?
>
> -Justin
>
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