updatedb + cron

[Christian Wallentin <cycler beyond malmo lth se>]

Hello fellow redhatiants

I have a problem concerning the updatedb script running under cron.

I have redhat 4.2 setup straight out of the box.

In the morning when I check for mail I have one waiting from the cron
daemon saying it couldn't change to a directory (doesn't say which)

After poking around I found that it couldn't change to /root (I've set it
to 700)

Changing to 755 made it work.

No, why can't I have root's home to 700???

To me (just beginning with Linux) that's a sequrity risk. (minor but
still)

Anyone can shed som light on this or perhaps have a fix.....

I thank this list in advance and humbly put myself in it's mercy.

/Christian Wallentin