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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 1999 20:48:33 -0400
From:      Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
To:        'Justin Wolf' <jjwolf@bleeding.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: weekly locate rebuild
Message-ID:  <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105A94@site2s1>

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As far as I can tell this has been fixed in -STABLE as I used to have the
exact same problem, and I no longer have it anymore.

-Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Justin Wolf [SMTP:jjwolf@bleeding.com]
> Sent:	Saturday, July 03, 1999 11:40 AM
> To:	freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject:	weekly locate rebuild
> 
> This is a lame question, but...  when my machine tries to automagically
> rebuild the locate db, it fails.  I modified the 310.locate script in
> /etc/periodic/weekly as such:
> 
> if [ -x /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb -a -f $locdb ] ; then
>     echo ""
>     echo "Rebuilding locate database:"
> echo "touching... "
>     touch ${locdb};
> echo "chowning... "
>     chown nobody ${locdb};
> echo "chmoding... "
>     chmod 644 ${locdb}
> echo "running... "
>     echo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb | nice -5 su -fm nobody
> echo "last chmod... "
>     chmod 444 ${locdb}
> echo "done"
> fi
> 
> And I get this output:
> 
> Rebuilding locate database:
> touching...
> chowning...
> chmoding...
> running...
> find: .: Permission denied
> 0
> last chmod...
> done
> 
> When I run it manually via 'periodic weekly' it works fine with no errors
> (as root).  Does the root crontab not run as root?  Any suggestions?
> 
> -Justin
> 
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