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Subject: periodic does not build locate database 
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>Number:         4804
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       < periodic does not build locate database>
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 19 04:50:01 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Sun May 24 22:46:35 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Sun May 24 22:47:13 PDT 1998
>Originator:     
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-971004-SNAP i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	

>Description:

This morning, I was suprised to see that my locate dabase was only
256 Byte.
Running 'periodic weekly' manually produces the following output:
find: .: Permission denied

Running '/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate' manually works fine.
I decided to add a 'cd /tmp' ind '310.locate', which solves the
prob.

>How-To-Repeat:
	periodic weekly


>Fix:

add 

	cd /tmp

in /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: steve 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Oct 26 20:02:15 PST 1997 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Misfiled PR. 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: steve 
State-Changed-When: Sun May 24 22:46:35 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
Paul Traina fixed this awhile back. 
>Unformatted:
