From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 30 15:59:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45CA116A872 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 15:59:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE8343D64 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 15:59:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4UFx6oi014569 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 10:59:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <447C6BCF.50908@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 10:59:11 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060506) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1499/Mon May 29 15:35:17 2006 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: truncate tool - must be root? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 15:59:16 -0000 Is it expected that truncate(8) must be used by a superuser? If so, then the man page should probably mention it. If not, then it's broken :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------