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authorWilliam Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>2022-07-12T03·58-0700
committerclbot <clbot@tvl.fyi>2022-07-12T04·01+0000
commit5188c689bff93182721abe6160da70ecbdaf8e0b (patch)
tree9e1506316dfddbbfa71f13ec3c267f62b9822849 /users/wpcarro/website/blog
parent7885fe99dc42f8606aca5fde82477eb8c7d05c4e (diff)
feat(wpcarro/blog): Short notes post on sudo tee r/4291
See post for more information :)

Change-Id: I1e2c1e3997d895fd64f225b5f0bc91f5b26d3e96
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/5940
Reviewed-by: wpcarro <wpcarro@gmail.com>
Autosubmit: wpcarro <wpcarro@gmail.com>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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diff --git a/users/wpcarro/website/blog/posts.nix b/users/wpcarro/website/blog/posts.nix
index b791f03654ce..1dd6930a1eee 100644
--- a/users/wpcarro/website/blog/posts.nix
+++ b/users/wpcarro/website/blog/posts.nix
@@ -43,4 +43,11 @@
     content = ./posts/restic.md;
     draft = false;
   }
+  {
+    key = "tee-time";
+    title = "tee time";
+    date = 1657597870;
+    content = ./posts/tee-time.md;
+    draft = false;
+  }
 ]
diff --git a/users/wpcarro/website/blog/posts/tee-time.md b/users/wpcarro/website/blog/posts/tee-time.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c8107fcded69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/users/wpcarro/website/blog/posts/tee-time.md
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+I encountered this fun TIL while troubleshooting Linux write permissions
+issues...
+
+## TL;DR
+
+Don't do this (unless you want misleading test results):
+
+```shell
+λ sudo -u node-exporter echo 'Hello, world' >/var/lib/textfile-exporter/test.prom
+```
+
+Do this:
+
+```shell
+λ echo 'Hello, world' | sudo -u node-exporter tee /var/lib/textfile-exporter/test.prom
+```