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Subject: periodic weekly (/etc/weekly) fails to rebuild locate database
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>Number:         10700
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       periodic weekly (/etc/weekly) fails to rebuild locate database
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    sheldonh
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 20 15:40:01 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jun 21 11:57:36 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jun 21 11:59:05 PDT 1999
>Originator:     Sergey Korsak
>Release:        3.1
>Organization:
Broadcast company "Studio 1+1"
>Environment:
FreeBSD boy.rpd.univ.kiev.ua 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Mar 15 10:10:16 EET 1999 skif@boy.rpd.univ.kiev.ua:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOY i386

>Description:
"periodic weekly" (old /etc/weekly) is executed by cron once a week.
It changes UID from root to nobody updating locate database but
remains in /root directory. If /root is unaccessable by nobody
(has mode 0750 for example), /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb fails to run.
>How-To-Repeat:
cd /root
chmod 750 .
/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate
>Fix:
insert "cd /" to the top of the script.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed 
State-Changed-By: sheldonh 
State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 28 08:35:43 PST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
Confirmed for CURRENT. Diff attached. 

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com>
To: skif@1plus1.net (Sergey Korsak)
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/10700: periodic weekly (/etc/weekly) fails to rebuild locate database
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 18:35:30 +0200

 Hi Sergey,
 
 Thanks for the report, you're right. Here's the diff required, as per
 your suggested fix.
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 
 Index: 310.locate
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate,v
 retrieving revision 1.2
 diff -u -d -r1.2 310.locate
 --- 310.locate	1997/11/01 15:00:40	1.2
 +++ 310.locate	1999/03/28 16:35:08
 @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
  
      touch ${locdb}; chown nobody ${locdb}; chmod 644 ${locdb}
  
 +    cd /
      echo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb | nice -5 su -fm nobody
      chmod 444 ${locdb}
  fi
 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->sheldonh 
Responsible-Changed-By: sheldonh 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Jun 15 11:52:14 PDT 1999 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'll take this one now that I'm a committer. 
State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed 
State-Changed-By: sheldonh 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 21 11:57:36 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed in revision 1.3 of 310.locate . Thanks! 
>Unformatted:
