From 5188c689bff93182721abe6160da70ecbdaf8e0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Carroll Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 20:58:23 -0700 Subject: feat(wpcarro/blog): Short notes post on sudo tee See post for more information :) Change-Id: I1e2c1e3997d895fd64f225b5f0bc91f5b26d3e96 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/5940 Reviewed-by: wpcarro Autosubmit: wpcarro Tested-by: BuildkiteCI --- users/wpcarro/website/blog/posts/tee-time.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 users/wpcarro/website/blog/posts/tee-time.md (limited to 'users/wpcarro/website/blog/posts/tee-time.md') 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 0000000000..c8107fcded --- /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 +``` -- cgit 1.4.1