>>>>> "Luis" == Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Luis> Hi, after reinstalling the system recently, I have been Luis> receving this message from cron everytime it runs: [snip] Luis> Looking at the offending script, it seems that it has Luis> problems while issuing Luis> su nobody Luis> If I do this by hand, it complains that it can't run Luis> /dev/null which is the default shell for nobody. What is Luis> going on? How can I repair this? Any hints or pointers would Luis> be welcome! Sorry for the "me-too" message. I have a similar problem. It is not critical, though, so I have been biding my time to see if anybody else's system exhibits similar behavior. My cron.daily scripts are set to run at 6:42 a.m. I often leave myself logged in overnight in X, and every morning when I look at xconsole, the last message on it is from 6:42 a.m. and says something to the effect of "su (to nobody)". When I log myself out, xconsole recovers and all the messages from after 6:42 a.m. suddenly appear. Closer examination reveals the following line in /etc/cron.daily/find: su nobody -c "cd / && updatedb" 2>/dev/null Interestingly enough, my 'locate' database doesn't seem to get updated automatically and I have to run 'updatedb' manually every once in awhile. I assume this is a known problem. Other than doing a wholesale upgrade of all my packages, is there a "Debian-correct" way to fix this problem? -- Nathan L. Cutler Linux Enthusiast http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~nlc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]