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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


-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com




  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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