On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM otto.cooper <otto.coo...@proton.me> wrote: > If I call /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb directly, the problem does not occur. > > When called by /etc/weekly, the problem occurs.
Well, what does /etc/weekly do that you aren't when you run it manually? /etc/weekly runs it as user 'nobody'; is that what you do? To put the question directly: is your /etc/locate.rc file world readable? If not, make it so. Philip Guenther