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 :)
Eric
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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
On Tue, 30 May 2006, 10:59-0500, 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 :)
Works for me:
$ truncate -s 100g 100g
$ ls -l 100g
-rw-r--r-- 1 maxim maxim 107374182400
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:11:53PM -0400, 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
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:59:11AM -0500, 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 :)
If you speak about truncate(1), it works here under non-root:
$ uname -sr
FreeBSD
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:59:11AM -0500, 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 :)
Eric
I can use truncate on files I own without a problem. Who owns the
files? A
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
Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 :)
What exactly is truncate(8)?
On FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE I only have truncate(1)
and it doesn't show any problems.
Fabian Keil wrote:
Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 :)
What exactly is truncate(8)?
On FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE I only have truncate(1)
and it
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