Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-28 Thread Илья Шипицин
guys, it was so funny to see you biting each other. come on, can you do it one more time, please ? 2012/1/23 Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:38 PM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: snip the BS There is no

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-23 Thread Martin Schröder
2012/1/23 Lars nore...@z505.com: Also MySQL became a billion dollar company and it doesn't even sell any product http://www.mysql.com/products/ http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/faq.html#20

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Anonymous cri...@ecn.org wrote: Lars, you ass-licking dog, what I am saying to you and prima donnas like you is you can be a good human being and that is more important than all the patches and code in the world. ... And yet you, L.V. Lammert, use the code,

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread Lars Hansson
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Anonymous cri...@ecn.org wrote: I asked this before but I guess you didn't see it. So if you contribute much more code to OpenBSD than someone else do you automatically get license to insult people and post 100% noise as some kind of reward? Since you're such

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread Anonymous
And yet you, L.V. Lammert, I am not Lammert. I don't approve of the way Lammert handled the issue but that is separate from the fairly regular piss parades and walls of text taking place here when a simple answer would work. The consensus of the vocal parties is that contribution = abuseLicense

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Anonymous wrote: Whooever told him to man up was justified. HUH?? WTF?? That's a CROCK!! It's amuzing to watch the flames flying, however, there *ARE* some people on the list that have an interest in solving problems. It IS unfortunate, however, that the actual PROBLEM

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: And yet you, L.V. Lammert, use the code, don't clearly explain what was failing on your system, and behave in exactly the way you rant about. Now THAT's quite laughahble! The ONLY problem here is with all the IDIOTS spouting CRAP with no interest

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread Amit Kulkarni
For those that happen to google this thread trying to find the solution: upgrading *would* have fixed his system due to the various steps done during upgrades, BZZZT! WRONG! If the system rebooted clean [which this one did], the problem would not have been found during a normal upgrade.

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Amit Kulkarni wrote: a recent system does a fsck -fp of each partition, so it would have fixed your problem. Would 4.4? 4.5? I don't think so, .. if you recall, the system is 4.3 so a normal upgrade (i.e. not a clean install) would not have fixed the problem. you are

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:39 PM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Amit Kulkarni wrote: a recent system does a fsck -fp of each partition, so it would have fixed your problem. Would 4.4? 4.5? I don't think so, You keep stating things that you believe to be true

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: snip the BS There is no way of knowing if it would have found the problem, so why continue with this drivel? Contrary to the lengthy diatribes here trying to distract from the original problem an solution: 1) The problem with locate was traced to a

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread Theo de Raadt
Lammert, I am going to have to ask you to leave our lists. You are no longer welcome here.

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:38 PM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: snip the BS There is no way of knowing if it would have found the problem, so why continue with this drivel? Contrary to the lengthy diatribes here trying to distract from the

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread Lars
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: ... The yelling and namecalling is unfortunate. But from observation and professional experience, if you want professional grade support for a software livecycle of over 3 years, you should be willing to pay for it. It would be cool to see more BSD consulting

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-22 Thread ropers
On 23 January 2012 04:04, Lars nore...@z505.com wrote: It would be cool to see more BSD consulting companies and support companies, and web hosting companies. If I was to look for an OpenBSD web hosting company, I'd have difficulty finding one. There are far too many LINUX web hosts out

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-21 Thread Lars Hansson
I notice you spend much more time scolding people than actually saying anything worthwhile. You should work on yourself and find out why that is. Perhaps you could benefit from some anger management training? I notice that Henning is contributing much more code to OpenBSD than you ever have

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-21 Thread Anonymous
Lars Hansson romaby...@gmail.com whined I notice you spend much more time scolding people than actually saying anything worthwhile. You should work on yourself and find out why that is. Perhaps you could benefit from some anger management training? I notice that Henning is contributing

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-19 Thread Paul de Weerd
With apologies to all, this will be my last reply on this thread. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 04:18:11PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: | At 03:59 PM 1/18/2012, you wrote: | Wait - so there's an issue that you have identified, with help from | members on this list ? And you're refusing to divulge the

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-19 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:15 AM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: It was truly a shame that so many people here prefer to start their flamethrowers rather than offer any sort of constructive information! In this case, THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AND IT WOULD MOST LIKELY NOT HAVE BEEN

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-19 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Paul de Weerd wrote: With apologies to all, this will be my last reply on this thread. Really? That WOULD be nice. Hopefully you will abide by your promise. Lee

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-19 Thread Ingo Schwarze
L. V. Lammert wrote on Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 09:20:44AM -0600: On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Paul de Weerd wrote: With apologies to all, this will be my last reply on this thread. Really? That WOULD be nice. Hopefully you will abide by your promise. Sure, I'd appreciate if Paul wrote a bit more, in

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-18 Thread L. V. Lammert
It was truly a shame that so many people here prefer to start their flamethrowers rather than offer any sort of constructive information! In this case, THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AND IT WOULD MOST LIKELY NOT HAVE BEEN FIXED WITH A NORMAL UPGRADE! !! !!! Before reading further,

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-18 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2012 Jan 18 (Wed) at 10:15:34 -0600 (-0600), L. V. Lammert wrote: :Running the find separately identified the file system problem, and :it was easily fixed as a result. So, what was the actual problem? Permissions? -- There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
On 2012 Jan 18 (Wed) at 10:15:34 -0600 (-0600), L. V. Lammert wrote: :Running the find separately identified the file system problem, and :it was easily fixed as a result. So, what was the actual problem? Permissions? Idiot near the keyboard.

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-18 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Theo de Raadt wrote: On 2012 Jan 18 (Wed) at 10:15:34 -0600 (-0600), L. V. Lammert wrote: :Running the find separately identified the file system problem, and :it was easily fixed as a result. So, what was the actual problem? Permissions? Idiot near the keyboard.

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-18 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Peter Hessler wrote: On 2012 Jan 18 (Wed) at 10:15:34 -0600 (-0600), L. V. Lammert wrote: :Running the find separately identified the file system problem, and :it was easily fixed as a result. So, what was the actual problem? Permissions? No, a file system problem. In

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-18 Thread Paul de Weerd
Wait - so there's an issue that you have identified, with help from members on this list ? And you're refusing to divulge the exact details that would probably help resolve the problem in future OpenBSD releases ? What the hell. That's a great thank you to all those people that helped you, Lee,

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-18 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 03:59 PM 1/18/2012, you wrote: Wait - so there's an issue that you have identified, with help from members on this list ? And you're refusing to divulge the exact details that would probably help resolve the problem in future OpenBSD releases ? Of course, an exposition was to be expected,

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-15 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 10:07:15PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: | On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: | | Any progress? I see plenty of replies to the people that you *don't* | think are helping you but no reply to my question about what user you | think locate.updatedb runs as,

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-15 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Perhaps he did. Wouldn't it be useful to help the guy trying to help you (you know, the wheat) by giving a really simple and straightforward answer, even if it is repeating yourself ? Probably would've been less typing than what you just did (e.g. Sorry, I think it runs as user ).

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-15 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:15:39 -0700 Duncan Patton a Campbell campb...@neotext.ca wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:47:48 -0600 L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: At 01:30 PM 1/11/2012, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: 4.3 was released May 1, 2008. That's almost 4 years old software. What are you

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-14 Thread Philip Guenther
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:02 PM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: Thanks again to those that actually read the original question, .. I am continuing to try and resolve the issue. Any progress? I see plenty of replies to the people that you *don't* think are helping you but no reply to my

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-14 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: Any progress? I see plenty of replies to the people that you *don't* think are helping you but no reply to my question about what user you think locate.updatedb runs as, something which does factor into being able to solve this... The answer was

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-13 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 03:28:37PM +0100, Fritz Wuehler wrote: Hey Henning, off-topic diatribes? coming to this mailing list asking for help about a 4 year old release when it is clearly documented that you are ENTIRELY ON YOUR OWN with releases older than a year is at least off topic,

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-13 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 08:38:37AM -0500, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 03:28:37PM +0100, Fritz Wuehler wrote: Hey Henning, off-topic diatribes? coming to this mailing list asking for help about a 4 year old release when it is clearly documented that you are

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-13 Thread Fritz Wuehler
Spoke the self-proclaimed guru: Upgrading is a rule of this list. It cannot get anymore simple than that. So you're saying OpenBSD and Windows are really the same? No need to actually diagnose problems just upgrade. Whatever it is is fixed in the current version. Arsewipe LOL

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-13 Thread Alexander Hall
On 01/13/12 14:47, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 08:38:37AM -0500, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 03:28:37PM +0100, Fritz Wuehler wrote: Hey Henning, off-topic diatribes? coming to this mailing list asking for help about a 4 year old release when it is

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-13 Thread Alexander Hall
On 01/13/12 13:50, Fritz Wuehler wrote: Spoke the self-proclaimed guru: Upgrading is a rule of this list. It cannot get anymore simple than that. So you're saying OpenBSD and Windows are really the same? No need to actually diagnose problems just upgrade. Whatever it is is fixed in the

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:28:57 +0100 Marian Hettwer wrote: Try to look from a different angle here. Say, you would have an old Debian Sarge release (years old) and you would approach a debian mailing list with something is weird with locate, pretty sure you would get a lot of advises to

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-13 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I'm surprised you've had so much help. You shouldn't be, .. there *ARE* a few decent folks here on the list. Personally and If I had time I'd want to find out the problem but I'd be wiping and reinstalling from scratch anyway, especially with an

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-13 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 03:02:35PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: | Personally and If I had time I'd want to find out the problem but I'd be | wiping and reinstalling from scratch anyway, especially with an unknown | cause. | | So, which is it? The attitude 'an upgrade will fix everything' is

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-01-13, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: *Especially* in this case since locate is a standard utility with a shell script that has not changed between 4.3 4.9, and I expect it hasn't for 5.0 either. If the system utilities have not changed, then the problem must be elsewhere; Oh,

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-12 Thread Sean Kamath
On Jan 11, 2012, at 4:08 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: Agreed, .. but if locate.update does NOT run as root, that would seem to indicate some problem other than permissions. If you're saying what I think you're saying, then I disagree and think your

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-12 Thread Henning Brauer
* L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net [2012-01-11 20:48]: Another typical reply - the question was has anyone ever seen anything like this, .. or, perhaps, what could be causing it. No need for the off-topic diatribes - a simple no would more than suffice. ah, you think the other kids won't find

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-12 Thread Martin Bock
FWIW, on my system it seems to work (and yes, I should upgrade!) $ uname -a OpenBSD foo.bar 4.3 GENERIC.MP#587 i386 On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 03:09:50PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: Lesson #1: examine the anomalous data for clues. So, you're

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-12 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:47:48 -0600 L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: At 01:30 PM 1/11/2012, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: 4.3 was released May 1, 2008. That's almost 4 years old software. What are you expecting here? Someone to check out the code from that version and deeply inspect what may be

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-12 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2012-01-11 16.26, L. V. Lammert wrote: Have a 4.3 server with a really weird problem: locate ONLY indexes one [user file] partition! IOW, no binaries are indexed, nor is /usr/, /var, .. Is this a new phenomenon? That is, did it use to work earlier and something is now broken? In that case,

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-12 Thread Fritz Wuehler
Hey Henning, off-topic diatribes? coming to this mailing list asking for help about a 4 year old release when it is clearly documented that you are ENTIRELY ON YOUR OWN with releases older than a year is at least off topic, if not outright rude. I notice you spend much more time scolding

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-12 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 05:59 AM 1/12/2012, you wrote: Is this a new phenomenon? That is, did it use to work earlier and something is now broken? In that case, what did you change? :-) Yes, .. nothing. (I'm not even gonna comment on the rest of this discussion. Ah, yet I just did, didn't I? Oh well, in that

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-12 Thread john
On , LV Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: Recommendations to upgrade are total BS - the system is 4.3 for reasons which I will not share with the list because they are not germaine to any issue raised herein. Such comments (beyond Theo's first one, to which he is more than entltled) are

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Theo de Raadt
Have a 4.3 server [rest deleted] There is a ton of documentation that makes it clear you are on your own more than two releases back.

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 10:41 AM 1/11/2012, Theo de Raadt wrote: Have a 4.3 server [rest deleted] There is a ton of documentation that makes it clear you are on your own more than two releases back. So, you're advocating incomplete information? Is that not a bigger problem? Lee

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Theo de Raadt
Have a 4.3 server [rest deleted] There is a ton of documentation that makes it clear you are on your own more than two releases back. So, you're advocating incomplete information? Is that not a bigger problem? No, I am advocating that you TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN PROBLEMS YOURSELF. We do not

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Bob Beck
So, you're advocating incomplete information? Is that not a bigger problem? No, we don't support old releases. 4.3 is very old. You should update your OS to something supported, and likely your problem will go away.

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Barry Grumbine
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:49 AM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: At 10:41 AM 1/11/2012, Theo de Raadt wrote: Have a 4.3 server [rest deleted] There is a ton of documentation that makes it clear you are on your own more than two releases back. So, you're advocating incomplete

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 01:04 PM 1/11/2012, Barry Grumbine wrote: Bite the bullet, upgrade, life is better at 5.0 Sorry, but *UPGRADING* isn't the question - the question is why locate is not working properly. If nobody has ever seen such a problem, it would be quite more forthright to just admit that than

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Barry Grumbine
Bite the bullet, upgrade, life is better at 5.0 ...knew I forgot something. There aren't many North American mirrors that go back to 4.2. I was fortunate to find obsd.cec.mtu.edu which Nick Holland recently notified us that he needs to take down very soon. After Looking through all the

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Jeremy O'Brien
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 14:17, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: At 01:04 PM 1/11/2012, Barry Grumbine wrote: Bite the bullet, upgrade, life is better at 5.0 Sorry, but *UPGRADING* isn't the question - the question is why locate is not working properly. If nobody has ever seen such a

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread David Cantrell
On 01/11/2012 02:30 PM, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 14:17, L. V. Lammertl...@omnitec.net wrote: At 01:04 PM 1/11/2012, Barry Grumbine wrote: Bite the bullet, upgrade, life is better at 5.0 Sorry, but *UPGRADING* isn't the question - the question is why locate is not

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 01:30 PM 1/11/2012, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: 4.3 was released May 1, 2008. That's almost 4 years old software. What are you expecting here? Someone to check out the code from that version and deeply inspect what may be causing your problem, that is more than likely already fixed in a later

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Theo de Raadt
They were valid replies, but a straw man argument at best. I think he would have preferred to hear something more like: Yeah, I saw something similar happen on my systems running an older release. I don't really remember the release, but I do remember the problem eventually went away

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Jeremy O'Brien
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 14:47, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: At 01:30 PM 1/11/2012, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: 4.3 was released May 1, 2008. That's almost 4 years old software. What are you expecting here? Someone to check out the code from that version and deeply inspect what may be

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi, Am 11.01.12 20:17, schrieb L. V. Lammert: At 01:04 PM 1/11/2012, Barry Grumbine wrote: Bite the bullet, upgrade, life is better at 5.0 Sorry, but *UPGRADING* isn't the question - the question is why locate is not working properly. No. You were advised to upgrade, since 4.3 is not

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Marian Hettwer wrote: Hi, Am 11.01.12 20:17, schrieb L. V. Lammert: At 01:04 PM 1/11/2012, Barry Grumbine wrote: Bite the bullet, upgrade, life is better at 5.0 Sorry, but *UPGRADING* isn't the question - the question is why locate is not working properly. No.

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Philip Guenther
Time for today's how to debug a problem lesson. On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:26 AM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: Have a 4.3 server with a really weird problem: locate ONLY indexes one [user file] partition! IOW, no binaries are indexed, nor is /usr/, /var, .. Lesson #1: examine the

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: Also, in order to help others when they encounter a similar issue, please be sure to post what the problem and/or solution were once you figure them out. Philip Guenther Amen! At least there's a chance it would turn up in the search engines.

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: Lesson #1: examine the anomalous data for clues. So, you're saying that locate /usr | grep ^/usr | head returns nothing but Yep! As does locate /usr locate /home | grep ^/home | head returns something? (/home being a stand-in for

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Philip Guenther
Also, in order to help others when they encounter a similar issue, please be sure to post what the problem and/or solution were once you figure them out. Philip Guenther

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:09 PM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: Lesson #1: examine the anomalous data for clues. So, you're saying that locate /usr | grep ^/usr | head returns nothing but Yep! As does locate /usr locate /home |

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Lars
L. V. Lammert wrote: At 01:04 PM 1/11/2012, Barry Grumbine wrote: Bite the bullet, upgrade, life is better at 5.0 Sorry, but *UPGRADING* isn't the question - the question is why locate is not working properly. If nobody has ever seen such a problem, it would be quite more forthright to just

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012, L. V. Lammert wrote: At 01:30 PM 1/11/2012, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: 4.3 was released May 1, 2008. That's almost 4 years old software. What are you expecting here? Someone to check out the code from that version and deeply inspect what may be causing your problem, that is

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Marian Hettwer
Am 11.01.12 22:34, schrieb Ted Unangst: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012, L. V. Lammert wrote: At 01:30 PM 1/11/2012, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: 4.3 was released May 1, 2008. That's almost 4 years old software. What are you expecting here? Someone to check out the code from that version and deeply inspect

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Marian Hettwer m...@kernel32.de wrote: ... ([foobar@bistromath] ~)$ time sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb Password: Ah, but that's *not* how locate.updatedb is invoked by the cronjob! There's a reason I called out the need to mimic that when trying to replicate

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Marian Hettwer m...@kernel32.de wrote: ... ([foobar@bistromath] ~)$ time sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb Password: Ah, but that's *not* how locate.updatedb is invoked by the cronjob! There's a reason I called

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Marian Hettwer
Am 12.01.12 00:13, schrieb Philip Guenther: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Marian Hettwerm...@kernel32.de wrote: ... ([foobar@bistromath]~)$ time sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb Password: Ah, but that's *not* how locate.updatedb is invoked by the cronjob! There's a reason I called out

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:18 PM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: ... Ah, but that's *not* how locate.updatedb is invoked by the cronjob! There's a reason I called out the need to mimic that when trying to replicate the problem while walking

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: Agreed, .. but if locate.update does NOT run as root, that would seem to indicate some problem other than permissions. If you're saying what I think you're saying, then I disagree and think your logic is backwards. What user do you think

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/11/12 14:24, Barry Grumbine wrote: Bite the bullet, upgrade, life is better at 5.0 ...knew I forgot something. There aren't many North American mirrors that go back to 4.2. I was fortunate to find obsd.cec.mtu.edu which Nick Holland recently notified us that he needs to take down

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:08 PM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: Agreed, .. but if locate.update does NOT run as root, that would seem to indicate some problem other than permissions. If you're saying what I think you're saying, then I