From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 17:49:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F40A237B422 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:49:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f3O0nZG01904; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:49:35 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:49:34 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: hulk Cc: questions Subject: Re: problem??? in /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate ??? Message-ID: <20010424124934.B99763@itouchnz.itouch> References: <3AE4BEBF.728C627A@home.com> <20010424120640.A98872@itouchnz.itouch> <3AE4CCA2.B2FED509@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AE4CCA2.B2FED509@home.com>; from hulk-baillie@home.com on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:45:22PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:45:22PM -0400, hulk wrote: > The script does not execute at all since "nobody" is not in "wheel"and > /var/db/locate.database is not updated. The periodic scripts run as root. root can su to anyone. The wheel group requirement is only needed for users attempting to su TO root. >At least this is how I > interpret > "permision denied". What's the output of `ls -l /var/db/locate.database'? -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If everything's under control, you're going too slow" - Mario Andretti To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message