Re: September 2024 stabilization week

Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net> wrote:
> > I have found that *only* on arm64, locate errors like so:
> >
> > # sh /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate

This runs /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb as nobody
and ensures that /var/db/locate.database exists and is owned by nobody,
but /var/db itself is root:wheel and 755 so the error from install does
not seem surprising.

Though that begs the question of how this ever works ;-)

> >
> > Rebuilding locate database:
> > install: /var/db/INS@ArwCNx: Permission denied
> >
> > However, if it's run like this:
> >
> > # sh /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
> >>>> WARNING
> >>>> Executing updatedb as root.  This WILL reveal all filenames
> >>>> on your machine to all login users, which is a security risk.
> >
> > it exits normally.
> >
> > Moving /var/db/locate.database aside makes no difference. The problem
> > doesn't
> > happen on amd64 arch, same 6e414739fc95.
> 
> This happens on all my amd64 -current installs.
> 
> It seems to have started with commit
> f62c1f3f8e91c78d402e1db4e518e4899a4ba2b9
> 
>        Michael
>