From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Sep 25 3:10:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D7D37B422 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:10:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id DAA34536; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:10:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:10:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009251010.DAA34536@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: conf/21535: /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate only builds FULL system database without 'echo' and '|nice...' args Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR conf/21535; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav To: glenn@intextonline.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/21535: /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate only builds FULL system database without 'echo' and '|nice...' args Date: 25 Sep 2000 12:03:39 +0200 glenn@intextonline.com writes: > I discovered the problem first tonight when doing a 'locate portsentry.conf' > which resides in /usr/local/psionic/portsentry. When I did a locate it > didn't come up with the filename. I was however able to find it by > doing find '/ -name portsentry.con -print'. The directory that file is in is not readable by user 'nobody', so it is not visible to locate.updatedb. This is a feature, not a bug; locate should not reveal information that a normal user couldn't normally obtain without locate. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message