On Sunday 24 Jun 2012 15:12:10 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 was installed more than 2 years ago.  I can't recall if I tweaked 
ownerships.

# ls -la /var/log/portage/elog
total 132
drwxrws--- 2 portage root  4096 Jun 17 10:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root    root 81920 Jun 24 16:00 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage root 17300 Jun 24 15:06 summary.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage root  3695 May 27 08:48 summary.log-20120527.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage root  1346 Jun  3 07:40 summary.log-20120603.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage root  1045 Jun  5 23:32 summary.log-20120610.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage root  5713 Jun 16 08:07 summary.log-20120617
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Regards,
Mick