Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Todd Goodman <tsg@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user?
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:30:15
Message-Id: 20120220165407.GE1375@ns1.bonedaddy.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 * Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> [120218 14:59]:
2 > This isn't an important issue, but it still bugs me a bit (curiosity
3 > killed the cat.) Some while ago (no idea when exactly, could be 6
4 > months ago or a year ago), I stopped being able to use "elogv" as a
5 > regular user. Something had changed the permissions of the
6 > "/var/log/portage" and "/var/log/portage/elog" directories. The only
7 > thing I know for sure, is that it wasn't me who changed them (and I'm
8 > the only user of that machine.)
9 >
10 > See the related bug report:
11 >
12 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404413
13 >
14 > So I have a question: did anyone else here notice this as well? What is
15 > the output of:
16 >
17 > ls -ld /var/log/portage /var/log/portage/elog
18 >
19 > on your system?
20 >
21
22 I seem to remember an emerge that changed the permissions of some log
23 files (I had to change /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf to add the
24 owner(root) and group(logcheck) options.)
25
26 I don't know if other files changed or if the directory permissions
27 changed at that time?
28
29 Todd