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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
