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 through locate.updatedb >> manually... >> > 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 locate.updatedb is run as? Philip Guenther
