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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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