> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Denny White <denny...@cableone.net> wrote: > > > "Not installing locate database; zero size" > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 05:54:31PM -0500, Dave K spoke thusly: > > I've been seeing this on a 4.3 box. After reading your email, and > seeing that I'm not the only one with the issue, I've been playing > with it today. > > After making backups of all the scripts involved (/etc/weekly and > /usr/libexec/locate.*), I took out the "2> /dev/null" and "trap ..." > stuff to be able to see all the errors, and have the various temporary > file left behind for analysis. > > If I run it manually (as root, "sh /etc/weekly"), it fails with the > find in locate.updatedb giving the error "find: .:: Permission > denied". If I cd into /tmp first, it runs okay. So I added > "PREVPWD=$PWD; cd /tmp" in /etc/weekly before the call to > locate.updatedb, and "cd $PREVPWD: after. > > It now has run successfully both when invoked manually, and from cron. > > I'm going to leave this debug configuration in place to see what > happens as time goes on. > > -- > Dave K > Unix Systems & Network Administrator > Mount Laurel NJ
Thanks Dave & Philip, too, since I'm CC you, for the ideas and help. Y'all will probably want to kick me in the ass when I explain what was causing the problem. But, your messages helped me figure it out, none the less, especially the part about changing directories before running the command. When I recently went from 4.3 to 4.4 & installed a new crontab, I copied & pasted my own & root's stuff into their respective crontabs from a backup. Wrong backup! There was 1 changed line that I never noticed until I read your messages. The crontab for root had HOME=/root & I can't remember why in the hell I changed that one day farting around with something here. Long & the short is, I copied from the wrong backup. I just changed it back to HOME=/var/log & locate.updatedb from weekly works fine once again. My bad. I keep voluminous notes but that one just slipped through the cracks. Sorry for the noise, & thanks for the help. [Slinks back into the primordial newbie/troll slime ;)] Denny White -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / Respect for low technology. X Keep e-mail messages readable by any computer system. / \ Keep it ASCII. =============================================================== GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A ===============================================================
