* [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user?
@ 2012-02-18 20:28 Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-18 20:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-20 16:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Todd Goodman
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Nikos Chantziaras @ 2012-02-18 20:28 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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?
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* Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user?
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
2012-02-19 2:00 ` Dale
2012-02-20 16:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Todd Goodman
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Alan McKinnon @ 2012-02-18 20:37 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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
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* Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user?
2012-02-18 20:37 ` Alan McKinnon
@ 2012-02-19 2:00 ` Dale
2012-02-19 3:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dale @ 2012-02-19 2:00 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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
>
>
I changed mine to run as root a long time ago. I could view the logs
but I could not delete the old ones when I was done. That would give a
permissions error. I just tried it again just now as a user and it
spits out this when I try to clear the logs:
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: <some file name here>
I would think that is normal. Viewing logs can be done by everyone but
clearing requires more permissions.
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
how you interpreted my words!
Miss the compile output? Hint:
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
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* [gentoo-user] Re: RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user?
2012-02-19 2:00 ` Dale
@ 2012-02-19 3:08 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-19 3:18 ` Dale
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Nikos Chantziaras @ 2012-02-19 3:08 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 19/02/12 04:00, Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>
>
> I changed mine to run as root a long time ago. I could view the logs
> but I could not delete the old ones when I was done. That would give a
> permissions error. I just tried it again just now as a user and it
> spits out this when I try to clear the logs:
>
> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:<some file name here>
>
> I would think that is normal. Viewing logs can be done by everyone but
> clearing requires more permissions.
No, it's not normal. If your user is in the portage group, then you
should be able to delete portage logs. So it seems your system is
suffering from the same thing.
The fix for this is in the bug report I linked to, btw.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user?
2012-02-19 3:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
@ 2012-02-19 3:18 ` Dale
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dale @ 2012-02-19 3:18 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 19/02/12 04:00, Dale wrote:
>> I changed mine to run as root a long time ago. I could view the logs
>> but I could not delete the old ones when I was done. That would give a
>> permissions error. I just tried it again just now as a user and it
>> spits out this when I try to clear the logs:
>>
>> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:<some file name here>
>>
>> I would think that is normal. Viewing logs can be done by everyone but
>> clearing requires more permissions.
>
> No, it's not normal. If your user is in the portage group, then you
> should be able to delete portage logs. So it seems your system is
> suffering from the same thing.
>
> The fix for this is in the bug report I linked to, btw.
>
>
>
I don't have my user is the portage group so for my system, it is
normal. I didn't realize you put your user in the portage group. That
changes things.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
how you interpreted my words!
Miss the compile output? Hint:
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
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* Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user?
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
@ 2012-02-20 16:54 ` Todd Goodman
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Todd Goodman @ 2012-02-20 16:54 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
* Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> [120218 14:59]:
> 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 seem to remember an emerge that changed the permissions of some log
files (I had to change /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf to add the
owner(root) and group(logcheck) options.)
I don't know if other files changed or if the directory permissions
changed at that time?
Todd
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