Re: [gentoo-user] Proper permissions for /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log?

[Dale]

Jarry wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just checked my machines and I found I have basically
> two groups of settings ("ls -al" in /var/log/portage/elog/):
>
> A)
> drwxrws--- 2 portage root     4096 Jun 24 03:10 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root    root     4096 Apr  7  2009 ..
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage root    57760 Jun 22 15:11 summary.log
>
> B)
> drwxrwsr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Jun 24 13:30 .
> drwxrws--- 3 portage portage 4096 Nov  3  2011 ..
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 1132 Jun 22 17:28 summary.log
>
> Not only "summary.log", but also /var/log/portage/ and
> /var/log/portage/elog/ have quite different permissions.
> I'm sure I never changed it manually, the only difference
> is that "A" group has been installed 3 yers ago, while "B"
> just recently (but both regulary updated).
>
> So is the "B-version" correct one?
>
> Jarry


This is my thinking on why it may be different for different folks. 
This first tho.  I run emerge as root.  I have not added my regular user
to the portage group.  I have no memory of messing with the permissions
either. 

I think that if you use a regular user to emerge some things, it gets
set to portage:portage or some mix of portage:root.  If you always run
emerge as root, then you get root:root.  It may be that this is only set
once or that it could be modified if you run as root then later on run
as a user. 

For the record, mine is set to root:root.  As mentioned above, I ALWAYS
run emerge as root. 

Any one have thoughts on this? 

Dale

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