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Date:      Wed, 2 Jun 1999 09:15:43 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Paul Dekkers <psd@cgu.nl>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        ChrisMic@clientlogic.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with locate database...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990602091434.22493A-100000@chippie.cgu>
In-Reply-To: <199906012204.SAA10911@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote:

| > | Check the /etc/crontab entry.  Is the weekly periodic script being run as
| > | root?
| > 
| > It is. However in /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate the locate-db command is
| > run as nobody. It doesn't work when run in crontab, but works when run
| > from commandline as root. Strange, isn't it? Same enviroment I assume.
| 
| Not at all strange. If you once built the database as root, I bet
| /var/db/locate.database is owned by root, no? nobody does not have

-r--r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  256 May 29 03:30 /var/db/locate.database
(It's an empty file now btw... and on a box where this all works (never
ran /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb directly) the file has the same
permissions...)

Paul

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Paul Dekkers 
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