Re: findutils_4.1-12 makes /var/lib/locate owned by root.root
Yes, you are right. If you uploaded from a working version, the
directory's permissions would not change. Hence, it has taken a few
months for the change to be noticed.
I will upload a fix later today.
Esa Turtiainen <etu@turtiainen.dna.fi> writes:
>
>
> It seems that in new Debian installations /var/lib/locate
> is owned bu root.root instead of nobody.nogroup and
> that is why locate does not work. Cron routine can
> not update the database because it is run as nobody.
>
> I tried to trace the bug and it seems that in the source
> package the directory is installed OK but some later
> makefile changed the permissions again.
>
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Kevin Dalley
kevin@aimnet.com
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