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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user?
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:40:20
Message-Id: 20120218223739.36822d9b@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:28:11 +0200
2 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
3
4 > This isn't an important issue, but it still bugs me a bit (curiosity
5 > killed the cat.) Some while ago (no idea when exactly, could be 6
6 > months ago or a year ago), I stopped being able to use "elogv" as a
7 > regular user. Something had changed the permissions of the
8 > "/var/log/portage" and "/var/log/portage/elog" directories. The
9 > only thing I know for sure, is that it wasn't me who changed them
10 > (and I'm the only user of that machine.)
11 >
12 > See the related bug report:
13 >
14 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404413
15 >
16 > So I have a question: did anyone else here notice this as well? What
17 > is the output of:
18 >
19 > ls -ld /var/log/portage /var/log/portage/elog
20 >
21 > on your system?
22 >
23 >
24
25 I use elogviewer in preference to elogv, no issues here. My perms:
26
27 # ls -ld /var/log/portage /var/log/portage/elog
28 drwxrws--- 3 portage portage 315392 Feb 18 12:19 /var/log/portage
29 drwxrwsr-x 2 portage portage 24576 Feb 18 12:19 /var/log/portage/elog
30
31
32 --
33 Alan McKinnnon
34 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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