truncate tool - must be root?

[Eric Anderson]

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 5.4-RELEASE i386
> $ id
> uid=2028(madole) gid=2000(users) groups=2000(users)
> $ echo "this is a test" > test
> $ ls -l test
> -rw-r-----  1 madole  httpd  15 May 30 12:06 test
> $ truncate -s 7 test
> $ ls -l test
> -rw-r-----  1 madole  httpd  7 May 30 12:06 test
> $ cat test
> this is$
> 
> Want to try again, giving any sort of interesting details you can, like 
> version you tested on or a reproducible test case?
> 
> David

*sigh*

My mistake - I'm not even going to mention the simple nature of my 
problem, because I'd embarrass myself too much. :)

You're right though, it was a bad report, and I should be smacked with a 
silly stick..

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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