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mcc: |
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> I want to index the contents of a ecryptfs-ed directory tree with |
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> mlocate storing the resulting db in that directory tree |
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I do like this: |
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Nightly run: |
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PRUNEPATHS=$HOME/tmp |
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updatedb -l 0 -U $HOME -o $HOME/.updatedb |
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chmod 600 $HOME/.updatedb |
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To find: |
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locate -d $HOME/.updatedb "$@" |
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Works without problem here. |
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... |
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> Reading its contents with |
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> locate -d var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db whattofind |
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> results in |
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> locate: can not stat () `var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': Permission denied |
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> the file shows this permission: |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 me users 1319628 2019-12-02 04:25 var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db |
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> . Why can I create a file, which afterwards I am not allowed to read? |
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Even if you cannot read a file you should be able to stat it, |
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like e.g. stat /etc/shadow. |
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It can be some problem with directory permissions, try to cd to your |
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var/lib/mlocate directory and then do a locate -d mlocate.db ... |
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Can you read your db file with something else, e.g. md5sum, |
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to verify that you can read it in some ways. |
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Regards, |
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/Karl Hammar |
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