/etc/cron.daily/find looks like this: #! /bin/sh # # cron script to update the `find.codes' database. # # Written by Ian A. Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
su nobody -c "cd / && updatedb" 2>/dev/null but the "nobody" entry in /etc/passwd looks like this: nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/tmp:/dev/null and it fails with: su: cannot run /dev/null: Permission denied I just changed "su nobody" to "su root". I can run it manually now as root so I assume cron should run it OK next time around. Is this a problem with the cron job from the findutils package or the passwd file from the base package? ...RickM...