From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 17 13:21:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [207.240.212.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55BF01511C for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:21:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA24302; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:18:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <199910172018.QAA24302@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Edirol" , "Francisco Reyes" Cc: "FreeBSD questions" Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:19:50 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Permission denied when rebuilding locate db Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 14:44:02 -0400, Edirol wrote: /root was "750" so this is probably the case. This must be a bug. I can't think of any good reason to have /root "755" >I had this problem once. In my case it was because my /root directory was >"chmod 750". After I set it to "chmod 755" I didn't get the error anymore. >> I have moved creating of the locate database to /etc/periodic/daily. >> For a month or so it worked fine but lately the locate db has been zero >> bytes. When I look at the daily run output I see: >> >> Rebuilding locate database: >> find: .: Permission denied To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message