Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 11:29:07 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: "David S. Madole" <david@madole.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: truncate tool - must be root? Message-ID: <447C72D3.1030103@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <447C6EC9.6070806@madole.net> References: <447C6BCF.50908@centtech.com> <447C6EC9.6070806@madole.net>
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David S. Madole wrote: > Eric Anderson wrote: >> 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 :) > > That's a pretty weak attempt at a bug report, and a wrong one, too: > > $ uname -m -r -s > FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386 > $ id > uid=2028(madole) gid=2000(users) groups=2000(users) > $ echo "this is a test" > test > $ ls -l test > -rw-r----- 1 madole httpd 15 May 30 12:06 test > $ truncate -s 7 test > $ ls -l test > -rw-r----- 1 madole httpd 7 May 30 12:06 test > $ cat test > this is$ > > Want to try again, giving any sort of interesting details you can, like > version you tested on or a reproducible test case? > > David *sigh* My mistake - I'm not even going to mention the simple nature of my problem, because I'd embarrass myself too much. :) You're right though, it was a bad report, and I should be smacked with a silly stick.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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