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Date:      Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:19:50 -0400
From:      "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net>
To:        "Edirol" <edirol@anime.ca>, "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net>
Cc:        "FreeBSD questions" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Permission denied when rebuilding locate db
Message-ID:  <199910172018.QAA24302@sanson.reyes.somos.net>

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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




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