From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck Subject: Re: No Locate for User Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:53:04 -0400 Message-ID: <426E2BA0.80307@gelm.net> References: <200504260418.j3Q4I8d2000571@skyinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200504260418.j3Q4I8d2000571@skyinet.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Peter , Ray Olszewski Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Peter wrote: >Sorry for not expressing myself clearly! > >ray@comarre.com said: > > >> 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. >> >> > >Yes I did chmod 644 /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db and it changed nothing. > >ray@comarre.com said: > > >>Since you say you tried things with "slocate" rather than "slocate.db", I am >>uncertain as to which of the two you were modifying. >> >> > >I did all the changes on slocate.db. I even made myself the owner. Even then I >get Permission denied. > >Updatedb changes permissions of slocate.db back to -rw-r----- 1 root slocate. > >ray@comarre.com said: > > >>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 >> >> > >ls -l /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db >-rw-r--r-- 1 root slocate 6640136 2005-04-25 18:08 /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db > >ls -l /usr/bin/locate >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-03-08 17:45 /usr/bin/locate -> slocate > >ldd /usr/bin/slocate >libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4001e000) >/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000) > >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 > >ls -l /usr/bin/locate >-rwxr-sr-x 1 root slocate 26460 2004-10-20 /usr/bin/locate -> slocate > >ldd /usr/bin/slocate > libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x004c7000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x004ae000) > > .../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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs