-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 July 2002 12:14 am, Chen Shi-Ping wrote: > Hi, > > I am running RH7.2. I used to have no problems to invoke "locate" > command. Recently, I get the following message when I invoke "locate" > as an ordinary user (not root): > > locate: this is not a valid slocate database: > /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db > > However, root user has no problems to invoke "locate". The following is > slocate information: > > $cd /usr/bin > $ll > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23560 Jun25 2001 slocate
Permissions here are: ll /usr/bin/slocate - -rwxr-sr-x 1 root slocate 25020 Jun 25 2001 /usr/bin/slocate 'rpm --setperms slocate' followed by 'rpm --setugids slocate' should fix up the permissions and ownership to the default. (Using both rpm options together in a single command failed here.) - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.2 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj0ig1kACgkQn/07WoAb/SuinQCcDcUvpYnkv+g1lIZAeRuIsYs7 bL4Ani7QQTpvsAAeOHDIekV9muN/A+Uu =Tiw9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
