From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ryr4u-0006Ev-OE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:40:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C739DE0D97; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:40:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BFDE0EDE for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:37:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdr12 with SMTP id dr12so3641569wgb.10 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:37:45 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of alan.mckinnon@gmail.com designates 10.216.145.207 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.216.145.207; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of alan.mckinnon@gmail.com designates 10.216.145.207 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.216.145.207]) by 10.216.145.207 with SMTP id p57mr1486785wej.29.1329597465726 (num_hops = 1); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:37:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dh+Y2GnVaEk/0SzkuQMlhl+DBKNC6R4gMDLhoTGD/Qw=; b=chVeC5FS+zTglf1UGRERr0/H1r6Hd2Z4yqzxEkLjL9JsHvW1cYmhFawXSjNMxr3LtY j/f7P/A6e7RuxKT7DFpEu0UWB8ZmTyavNeTxTN1Tsuj7+dDQs/OUtNFMQF8Vhszr5XuI F4seMixn73z03BuuVYBDwg2oOxdkdahoY971U= Received: by 10.216.145.207 with SMTP id p57mr1252799wej.29.1329597465583; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:37:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-2-107.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.2.107]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id eq5sm13866683wib.2.2012.02.18.12.37.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:37:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:37:39 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user? Message-ID: <20120218223739.36822d9b@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 42727d8f-6eb6-427a-8a2e-795a81812eb3 X-Archives-Hash: 3e2bfb8b846150aa608ed8eb53d25b31 On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:28:11 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras 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