Description of problem: beagle-0.2.1-12 includes a cron task intended to crawl contents from several system-wide locations, like documentation files and applications shortcuts. This cron task is implemented by the /usr/libexec/ beagle-crawl-system sh script. Since beagle refuses to run as root, this crawling task is ran as user beagleindex, storing the indexes under /var/cache/beagle/indexes. The problem is that beagle-crawl-system runs as root and invokes beagle through su to impersonate beagleindex user. However, since the beagleindex user has no shell, the invocation to beable fails. I have attached a patch to impersonate the beagleindex user and invoking beagle using /bin/bash. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): beagle-0.2.1-12 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. As root, launch /usr/libexec/beagle-crawl-system 2. Nothing will happen 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 125406 [details] invoke beagle using su through /bin/bash shell
Filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332955
fixed in 0.2.1-13