Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:20:47 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limiting find(1) in /etc/periodic scripts Message-ID: <20150720132047.360cc9e8@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <201507201039.t6KAdwCU014203@sdf.org> References: <201507200910.t6K9A9J6007857@sdf.org> <20150720114036.b83e5116.freebsd@edvax.de> <201507201039.t6KAdwCU014203@sdf.org>
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On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 05:39:58 -0500 Scott Bennett wrote: > Well, that's not a worry because the locate stuff has only > created empty locate databases since sometime in FreeBSD 6. I've > tried several times without success to get it to work It works for me with the periodic script. You might have run into the problem I had when I tried to build a database for my home directory files. I don't know why, but it seems that find is sensitive to permissions on underlying mount-points. I had extra partitions mounted under ~/, and the permissions were set-up to prevent anything writing under or traversing the mount-points when nothing was mounted. This caused find to terminate with an error. I'm wondering if you've done something similar - /tmp is the most likely candidate. > and to get it to run as "nobody". It does run as nobody.
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