Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 21:41:19 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Marella <rmarella@gmail.com> Subject: Re: portmanager core dumps Message-ID: <200601082141.20499.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060108163046.5c625ab5@frankie.konav201.local> References: <20060108163046.5c625ab5@frankie.konav201.local>
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On Sunday 08 January 2006 18:30, Robert Marella wrote: > Good Afternoon > > At times when in a hurry or not thinking as fast as my fingers, I try > to run "portupgrade -s | grep OLD" from a regular user account instead > of "sudo portupgrade -s | grep OLD". do you mean "portmanager -s | grep OLD" by any chance? > > I would expect portupgrade to insult my intelligence and question my > heritage .... or is that question my intelligence and insult my > heritage. Well, it doesn't do either. It core dumps. This will happen > on more than one system running 6 Stable and the updated portmanager. > > [robert@frankie] ~> pkg_info | grep portmanager > portmanager-0.4.1_4 FreeBSD installed ports status and safe update > utility > > Thanks > > Robert Portmanager will only run as root, I'll make a note/bug to check error handling when someone attempts to run it as a normal user. -Mike
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