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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user?
From:       Todd Goodman <tsg () bonedaddy ! net>
Date:       2012-02-20 16:54:07
Message-ID: 20120220165407.GE1375 () ns1 ! bonedaddy ! net
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* 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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