Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:04:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: psd@cgu.nl Cc: ChrisMic@clientlogic.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with locate database... Message-ID: <199906012204.SAA10911@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990601231554.21297A-100000@chippie.cgu> from Paul Dekkers at "Jun 1, 99 11:17:03 pm"
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Paul Dekkers wrote, > On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > > | Check the /etc/crontab entry. Is the weekly periodic script being run as > | root? > > It is. However in /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate the locate-db command is > run as nobody. It doesn't work when run in crontab, but works when run > from commandline as root. Strange, isn't it? Same enviroment I assume. Not at all strange. If you once built the database as root, I bet /var/db/locate.database is owned by root, no? nobody does not have permission to overwrite the root-owned file when the update tries to update it. Logon as root and 'chown nobody /var/db/locate.database' to fix. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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