From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user?
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:37:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120218223739.36822d9b@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jhp1ku$i65$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:28:11 +0200
Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.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
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Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-18 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-18 20:28 [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user? Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-18 20:37 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2012-02-19 2:00 ` Dale
2012-02-19 3:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-19 3:18 ` Dale
2012-02-20 16:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Todd Goodman
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