Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:20:35 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: sudo and env gotcha (or is it just me?) Message-ID: <d7195cff0707301220x124219abn12f7f5559f4cc0ab@mail.gmail.com>
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After blithely upgrading everything else, I at- tempted rebuilding jdk15 and, crumbs! my nfs mounted /ports (4.7G) filled up and the build barfed although I have WRKDIRPREFIX set in /etc/csh.cshrc Barbara Streisand! I thought, what could be the prob-lem now? % cd /ports/java/jdk15 && sudo make extract puts the work/ directory right there in /ports/java/jdk15/ Hooray(?)! well, it's not portupgrade's fault, since make is also not using $WRKDIRPREFIX And then it occured to me that I had upgraded sudo. Oh ho! % sudo env gave me quite a short list, which certainly didn't include WRKDIRPREFIX. A not very quick perusal of man 8 sudo and then man 5 sudoers and I finally found the env_reset flag and a host of others besides. Boy, was that ever a fun auuenture! Lesson: be observant when upgrading important things. or It never hurts to read. -- --
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