From owner-freebsd-questions  Sat Jul 10 17:46:53 1999
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38ED014D01
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 17:46:37 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com)
Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0)
	id <3DAYWTT8>; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 20:46:33 -0400
Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105A94@site2s1>
From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
To: 'Justin Wolf' <jjwolf@bleeding.com>,
	freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: weekly locate rebuild
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 20:48:33 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0)
Content-Type: text/plain
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

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
> 
> 
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message