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To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
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Subject: Re: kern/876 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Apr 1996 18:07:22 EDT."             <Pine.BSI.3.92.960411175521.3688M-100000@freebsd.ki.net> 
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:48:10 +0100
From: Simon Marlow <simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
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> ---[ begin ]---
> 
> freebsd# ls -lt CVS-routine
> -rw-------  1 scrappy  wheel  2392 Mar 26 14:32 CVS-routine
> freebsd# more CVS-routine
> freebsd# cat CVS-routine
> cat: CVS-routine: Permission denied

Umm, the idea is to get the file into the cache by first reading it
legitimately as the owner of the file.  The how-to-repeat still works
for me.

> 	in the original report, the originator reported, in his example,
> that more gave an error while cat worked on the file:

Yep, there seems to be some confusion here.  I should have used 'cat'
exclusively.

> As root:
> 
> # more ~fred/a
> a: permission denied
> 
> As fred:
> 
> % cat a
> hello
> %
> 
> As root:
> 
> # cat ~fred/a
> hello
> 
> 
> 	I used the same "How-To-Repeat" that the originator used, except
> on an existing file.  Actually, to make it exact:
> 
> 
> As scrappy:
> > cd
> > touch this-is-a-test-file
> > ls -lt !$
> ls -lt this-is-a-test-file
> -rw-r--r--  1 scrappy  wheel  0 Apr 11 18:05 this-is-a-test-file
> > chmod 600 !$
> chmod 600 this-is-a-test-file
> 
> 
> As root:
> freebsd# ls -lt this*
> -rw-------  1 scrappy  wheel  0 Apr 11 18:05 this-is-a-test-file
> freebsd# cat this-is-a-test-file
> cat: this-is-a-test-file: Permission denied
> freebsd# more this-is-a-test-file
> freebsd# more this-is-a-test-file
> read error  (press RETURN)

You missed out the vital step:

As scrappy:

$ cat this-is-a-test-file
$

before trying to read it as root.  The root read then succeeds.

Cheers,
	Simon

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