[SOLVED] [Slackware64-current] odd cron.daily output

dchmelik · 01-22-2024, 05:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by henca

Code:

ls -ald /
ls -ald /var
ls -ald /var/lib
ls -ald /var/lib/mlocate
ls -ald /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db
df -h /var/lib/mlocate
cat /proc/mounts

Code:

drwxr-xr-x 42 root root 20480 Jan 22 10:17 //
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jan 22 10:17 /var/
drwxr-xr-x 60 root root 4096 Jan 22 10:20 /var/lib/
drwxr-x--- 2 root slocate 4096 Jan 22 10:15 /var/lib/mlocate/
-rw-r----- 1 root slocate 175083095 Jan 22 10:15 /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root       177G  142G   27G  85% /
/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime 0 0
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=31319108k,nr_inodes=7829777,mode=755,inode64 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=32768k,mode=755,inode64 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,inode64 0 0
cgroup_root /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,relatime,size=8192k,mode=755,inode64 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/elogind cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/lib64/elogind/elogind-cgroups-agent,name=elogind 0 0
/etc/auto.misc /misc autofs rw,relatime,fd=7,pgrp=1971,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect,pipe_ino=42051 0 0
-hosts /net autofs rw,relatime,fd=10,pgrp=1971,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect,pipe_ino=28731 0 0
/etc/auto.dh /mnt/nfs autofs rw,relatime,fd=13,pgrp=1971,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect,pipe_ino=44138 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
home /home zfs rw,noatime,xattr,noacl,casesensitive 0 0
/dev/loop0 /scd iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nojoliet,check=s,map=n,blocksize=2048,iocharset=utf8 0 0
gvfsd-fuse /home/d/.gvfs fuse.gvfsd-fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100 0 0
portal /home/d/.cache/doc fuse.portal rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100 0 0
Ferdium /tmp/.mount_Ferdiur9mwuv fuse.Ferdium ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100 0 0

henca · 01-23-2024, 12:49 AM

Your ownerships and permissions looks fine and your root partition is mounted rw. I assume that you ran the above commands as root as an ordinary user probably is not a member of the slocate group?

So, what if you as root try to run

Code:

/etc/cron.daily/mlocate

Would that also give "/usr/bin/updatedb: can not open a temporary file for `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db'"?

On my Slackware 15.0 system running /etc/cron.daily/mlocate as root works fine, but running it as a normal user gives, as expected:

Code:

/usr/bin/updatedb: can not open a temporary file for `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db'

I suspect that you somehow has gotten the crontab of root into the crontab of an ordinary user. What is the output of:

Code:

ls -al /var/spool/cron/crontabs/

Another possible cause could be if you somehow gotten some script in /etc/cron.daily which does su to an ordinary user before running other scripts.

What if you as root try to run:

Code:

/usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily

Does that work worse for mlocate than only calling the mlocate script as root?

regards Henrik

dchmelik · 01-23-2024, 01:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by henca

[...]I suspect that you somehow has gotten the crontab of root into the crontab of an ordinary user.[...]

I didn't (because a lot more stuff would be going wrong) but apparently I copied default crontab into a user's one to see formatting for hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and one wasn't commented out.

chrisretusn · 01-23-2024, 01:51 AM

All of my issues with this have be resolved. I believe was the re-installation of glibc-2.38_multilib-x86_64-3alien resolved this use:

Code:

/usr/bin/mandb: iconv_open ("UTF-8//IGNORE", "ISO-8859-1"): Invalid argument

Have not seen it since.

This all started with this:

Code:

Sat Jan 13 20:31:09 UTC 2024
a/dcron-4.5-x86_64-15.txz: Rebuilt.
       run-parts: don't redirect stderr to stdout. Thanks to Thom1b.

This a when I started seeing these reports.

Code:

cron for user root /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily 1> /dev/null

rwm_lq · 01-23-2024, 01:23 PM

same Problems with "/usr/bin/mandb: iconv_open ("UTF-8//IGNORE", "ISO-8859-1"): Invalid argument"
Seems to be fixable by Reinstallation of glibc glibc-i18n glibc-profile glibc-zoneinfo
(no multilib installed)

error: mysql:21 duplicate log entry for /var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log
Two Fixes:
First Thread https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...6/#post6477399 as posted earlier
Second: Some old mysql in /etc/logrotate.d/mysql