Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user?
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:19:57
Message-Id: 4F406A14.6090606@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 19/02/12 04:00, Dale wrote:
3
4 >> I changed mine to run as root a long time ago. I could view the logs
5 >> but I could not delete the old ones when I was done. That would give a
6 >> permissions error. I just tried it again just now as a user and it
7 >> spits out this when I try to clear the logs:
8 >>
9 >> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:<some file name here>
10 >>
11 >> I would think that is normal. Viewing logs can be done by everyone but
12 >> clearing requires more permissions.
13 >
14 > No, it's not normal. If your user is in the portage group, then you
15 > should be able to delete portage logs. So it seems your system is
16 > suffering from the same thing.
17 >
18 > The fix for this is in the bug report I linked to, btw.
19 >
20 >
21 >
22
23 I don't have my user is the portage group so for my system, it is
24 normal. I didn't realize you put your user in the portage group. That
25 changes things.
26
27 Dale
28
29 :-) :-)
30
31 --
32 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
33 how you interpreted my words!
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35 Miss the compile output? Hint:
36 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"