On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote:
> > 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?
>
If it does not run as root, then it isn't a permission issue as running as
root provides all required permissions, eh?
I have never seen locate.updatedb fail when run as root (3.0 to 5.0,
actually), .. but, then, it isn't exactly 'failing', it just isn't
indexing anything except "/home".
The only other possible hypothesis, is that it is running out of memory;
one would expect some sort of error to be returned in that case and a
blank database as a result, not one partially populated.
Lee
