question

[Boehler, Joe]

Brent,
 
Thanks. It turns out that the logs in question (there are several) quit
working properly when I cat /dev/null to them. I don't really understand why
directing stdout doesn't affect them the way /dev/null does, but I can't use
/dev/null to zero them.
 
Thanks,
Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Fortman [mailto:Brent.Fortman at radioshack.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:17 AM
To: Boehler, Joe; 'sudo-users at sudo.ws'
Subject: RE: question


cat /dev/null > /var/opt/OV/share/databases/eventdb/log_2
 
Brent

-----Original Message-----
From: Boehler, Joe [mailto:Joe.Boehler at agedwards.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:47 AM
To: sudo-users at sudo.ws
Subject: question



Hello sudoers, 

I have users who need to be able to zero some root owned log files by
directing stdout to the file. For example,
>/var/opt/OV/share/databases/eventdb/log_2, but when I enter that as a
command alias, sudo complains about the syntax.

Is there a way to write this so the syntax is acceptable to sudo? 


Thanks 
Joe Boehler  59068 
Unix Admin 



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