Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user?

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:28:11 +0200
> Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
>
>> This isn't an important issue, but it still bugs me a bit (curiosity
>> killed the cat.)  Some while ago (no idea when exactly, could be 6
>> months ago or a year ago), I stopped being able to use "elogv" as a
>> regular user.  Something had changed the permissions of the
>> "/var/log/portage" and  "/var/log/portage/elog" directories.  The
>> only thing I know for sure, is that it wasn't me who changed them
>> (and I'm the only user of that machine.)
>>
>> See the related bug report:
>>
>>    https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404413
>>
>> So I have a question: did anyone else here notice this as well?  What
>> is the output of:
>>
>>    ls -ld /var/log/portage /var/log/portage/elog
>>
>> on your system?
>>
>>
>
> I use elogviewer in preference to elogv, no issues here. My perms:
>
> # ls -ld /var/log/portage /var/log/portage/elog
> drwxrws--- 3 portage portage 315392 Feb 18 12:19 /var/log/portage
> drwxrwsr-x 2 portage portage  24576 Feb 18 12:19 /var/log/portage/elog
>
>


I changed mine to run as root a long time ago.  I could view the logs
but I could not delete the old ones when I was done.  That would give a
permissions error.  I just tried it again just now as a user and it
spits out this when I try to clear the logs:

OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: <some file name here>

I would think that is normal.  Viewing logs can be done by everyone but
clearing requires more permissions.

Hope that helps.

Dale

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