Topic: groups problem

[Luc Verstraeten]

Since installing 5.5 I get the following error:

/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron:

warning: updatedb: Could not find the group: slocate in the /etc/group file.
fatal error: This is a result of the group missing or a corrupted group file.

group file:

root:x:0:root,admin
bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon
daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon
sys:x:3:root,bin,adm
adm:x:4:root,adm,daemon
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:root
lp:x:7:daemon,lp
mem:x:8:
kmem:x:9:
wheel:x:10:root
mail:x:12:mail
news:x:13:news
uucp:x:14:uucp
man:x:15:
games:x:20:
mysql:x:27:
gopher:x:30:
dip:x:40:
ftp:x:50:
dns:x:53:
nobody:x:99:
users:x:100:
admin:x:101:www
www:x:102:admin
public:x:103:
nofiles:x:400:
qmail:x:401:
qmailscan:x:407:
apache:x:48:
utmp:x:22:
named:x:25:
floppy:x:19:
ldap:x:55:
squid:x:23:

Anybody any ideas?

[Rob Bracken]

I have an slocate group in my /etc/group file. You could try adding an "slocate" group with "groupadd".

I don't know what slocate does - I think it's some sort of indexing program that won't let users see any files thay don't have permissions for.

Rob