Re: No Locate for User

chuck
2005-04-26T11:53:04Z

Peter wrote:

>Sorry for not expressing myself clearly!
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>ray@comarre.com said:
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>> From what you just wrote this time ("I tried various permission for
>>slocate"), I *still* cannot tell if you tried what I actually suggested --
>>using chmod to set the database file (slocate.db) to mode 644.
>>
>>
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>Yes I did chmod 644 /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db and it changed nothing.
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>ray@comarre.com said:
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>>Since you say you tried things with "slocate" rather than "slocate.db", I am
>>uncertain as to which of the two you were modifying.
>>
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>I did all the changes on slocate.db. I even made myself the owner. Even then I
>get Permission denied.
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>Updatedb changes permissions of slocate.db back to -rw-r----- 1 root slocate.
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>ray@comarre.com said:
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>>If it does, then round up the usual suspects:
>> ls -l /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
>> ls -l /usr/bin/locate (or wherever Slackware puts it)
>> ldd /usr/bin/locate
>>
>>
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>ls -l /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root slocate 6640136 2005-04-25 18:08 /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
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>ls -l /usr/bin/locate
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-03-08 17:45 /usr/bin/locate -> slocate
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>ldd /usr/bin/slocate
>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4001e000)
>/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
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>Fedora:
>ls -l /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
>-rw-r----- 1 root slocate 2874826 2005-04-20 15:07
>/mnt/rh9root/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
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>ls -l /usr/bin/locate
>-rwxr-sr-x 1 root slocate 26460 2004-10-20 /usr/bin/locate -> slocate
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>ldd /usr/bin/slocate
> libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x004c7000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x004ae000)
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.../tls/... ?

My Slackware 10.1: ldd /usr/bin/slocate:
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40009000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)

HTH, Chuck