On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Denny White <denny...@cableone.net> wrote:
> "Not installing locate database; zero size" I've been seeing this on a 4.3 box. After reading your email, and seeing that I'm not the only one with the issue, I've been playing with it today. After making backups of all the scripts involved (/etc/weekly and /usr/libexec/locate.*), I took out the "2> /dev/null" and "trap ..." stuff to be able to see all the errors, and have the various temporary file left behind for analysis. If I run it manually (as root, "sh /etc/weekly"), it fails with the find in locate.updatedb giving the error "find: .:: Permission denied". If I cd into /tmp first, it runs okay. So I added "PREVPWD=$PWD; cd /tmp" in /etc/weekly before the call to locate.updatedb, and "cd $PREVPWD: after. It now has run successfully both when invoked manually, and from cron. I'm going to leave this debug configuration in place to see what happens as time goes on. -- Dave K Unix Systems & Network Administrator Mount Laurel NJ
