tag 19090 notabug thanks On 11/17/2014 12:45 PM, Plato wrote: > Hello, > > After I set the date > sudo date 11172042 > mo nov 17 20:42:00 CET 2014 > The screen blanks. The screen going blank after the use of 'sudo' is a feature of 'sudo', not of date. You'd see the same behavior if you did 'sudo /bin/true'. My understanding is that the sudo behavior is intentional - since 'sudo' executes on privileged information, it is a good idea to clear that information from the screen when returning control to a non-privileged user. > Is this a bug or is something else going on? > The man page does not mention screenblanking. I'm not sure if you are referring to 'man date' or to 'man sudo'; but since date is not the cause of the symptoms, and since this is not the site that is responsible for 'man sudo', you're better off reporting any man page deficiency for the sudo page to the sudo project. I'm closing this as not a bug in coreutils, but feel free to make further comments. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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