Re: [gentoo-user] Proper permissions for /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log?

[Bryan Gardiner <bog@khumba.net>]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:48:33 -0500
Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mick wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 Jun 2012 19:27:36 Dale wrote:
> >> 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 is my thinking on why it may be different for different folks.
> >> This first tho.  I run emerge as root.  I have not added my
> >> regular user to the portage group.  I have no memory of messing
> >> with the permissions either.
> >>
> >> I think that if you use a regular user to emerge some things, it
> >> gets set to portage:portage or some mix of portage:root.  If you
> >> always run emerge as root, then you get root:root.  It may be that
> >> this is only set once or that it could be modified if you run as
> >> root then later on run as a user.
> >>
> >> For the record, mine is set to root:root.  As mentioned above, I
> >> ALWAYS run emerge as root.
> >>
> >> Any one have thoughts on this?
> >>
> >> Dale
> >>
> >> :-)  :-)
> > I always run emerge as root.
> >
> > elog is owned by portage:root, summary.log within it as
> > portage:root, other log files within /var/log/portage are owned by
> > portage:portage.
> 
> So those that allow users to run would have the same permissions as
> everyone else.  Now I wonder why they vary from system to system
> then. It seems to me, they should be the same for everyone.  Just
> seems odd. 
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 

I generally "emerge -p" as user then "emerge" as root.  For ownership
of /var/log/portage/elog, I tried changing my system with portage:root
to portage:portage and vice versa on the other system.  Something
during right the merge phase, right around when those elog messages
appear, resets the ownership back to what is was before I changed it
on both systems.  Odd indeed.

I thought perhaps some user flag in FEATURES would do this, but the
only difference between the two is buildpkg vs. buildsyspkg.  The only
user FEATURE enabled is userfetch.  Running portage-2.2.0_alpha112 on
both.

- Bryan