*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 210699 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210699
I also have this failing cron job : $ dpkg -S /etc/cron.daily/find findutils: /etc/cron.daily/find $ dpkg -s findutils Package: findutils Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: required Section: utils Installed-Size: 648 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: i386 Version: 4.4.2-1ubuntu3 Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7) Suggests: mlocate | locate | slocate Conffiles: /etc/cron.daily/find 56d5ad07a14419d1fae3d2620f2d9ff9 obsolete Description: utilities for finding files--find, xargs GNU findutils provides utilities to find files meeting specified criteria and perform various actions on the files which are found. This package contains 'find' and 'xargs'; however, 'locate' has been split off into a separate package. Homepage: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/findutils/ Original-Maintainer: Andreas Metzler <ametz...@debian.org> $ apt-cache policy findutils findutils: Installé : 4.4.2-1ubuntu3 Candidat : 4.4.2-1ubuntu3 Table de version : *** 4.4.2-1ubuntu3 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status In my case, it exits with exit status 1: $ sudo sh -x /etc/cron.daily/find + LOCALUSER=nobody + export LOCALUSER + [ -f /etc/updatedb.conf ] + . /etc/updatedb.conf + PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS=yes + PRUNEPATHS=/tmp /var/spool /media /home/.ecryptfs + PRUNEFS=NFS nfs nfs4 rpc_pipefs afs binfmt_misc proc smbfs autofs iso9660 ncpfs coda devpts ftpfs devfs mfs shfs sysfs cifs lustre_lite tmpfs usbfs udf fuse.glusterfs fuse.sshfs curlftpfs ecryptfs fusesmb devtmpfs + getent passwd nobody + cd / + nice -n 10 ionice -c 2 -p 7 updatedb patrick@glaciere:/etc/cron.daily$ echo $? 1 Fixing this script as suggested by Smylers solves the problem: $ sudo sh -x /etc/cron.daily/find + LOCALUSER=nobody + export LOCALUSER + [ -f /etc/updatedb.conf ] + . /etc/updatedb.conf + PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS=yes + PRUNEPATHS=/tmp /var/spool /media /home/.ecryptfs + PRUNEFS=NFS nfs nfs4 rpc_pipefs afs binfmt_misc proc smbfs autofs iso9660 ncpfs coda devpts ftpfs devfs mfs shfs sysfs cifs lustre_lite tmpfs usbfs udf fuse.glusterfs fuse.sshfs curlftpfs ecryptfs fusesmb devtmpfs + getent passwd nobody + cd / + nice -n 10 ionice -c 2 -n 7 updatedb patrick@glaciere:/etc/cron.daily$ echo $? 0 Regards, Patrick. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191355 Title: cron complains /etc/cron.daily/find exited with return code 127 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/findutils/+bug/191355/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs