http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627275 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627275#c0 Summary: findutils-locate: daily cron job overwrites locatedb with an empty database Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Final Platform: PC OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: verdelyi@windowslive.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100723 SUSE/3.6.8-0.1.1 Firefox/3.6.8 The cron job tries to run updatedb as the nobody user and that simply doesn't work: # updatedb --localuser=nobody su: incorrect password su: incorrect password su: incorrect password It seems manually running "su nobody" doesn't work either. Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.