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From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Cc: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>, 251489-forwarded@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#251489: noclobber broken as non-root for devices
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 15:41:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040528194126.GA7531@scowler.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040528183657.GA28155@kitenet.net>

> 
> joey:~/src/d-i/installer/build/dest/hd-media/2.6>sudo zcat boot.img.gz >/dev/sda 
> zsh: file exists: /dev/sda
> zsh: exit 1     sudo zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sda
> joey:~/src/d-i/installer/build/dest/hd-media/2.6>su
> root:/home/joey/src/d-i/installer/build/dest/hd-media/2.6>zcat boot.img.gz >/dev/sda
> 
> This is very annoying, it seems to think that because I'm not root,
> I cannot write to devices. I can, and I'm using sudo anyway..

Well, the sudo is irrelevant.  The question is how NO_CLOBBER should
behave with devices nodes.


           reply	other threads:[~2004-05-28 19:42 UTC|newest]

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