On Monday 31 Oct 2011 12:25:37 Colin J Thomson wrote:
On Monday 31 Oct 2011 12:16:03 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 31 Oct 2011 10:40:12 Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> > On 10/31/2011 07:33 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I'm fed up of having to be root to read log files when
> > > troubleshooting. I'd like to add a sudo line that gives me read-only
> > > rights to /var/log/ - is this possible? I've not found any example
> > > of limted rights like that - and I don't want to allow write access
> > > to anyone other than root.
> >
> > Not really a KDE issue, but facl should work. $user will be your
> > userid.
> >
> > setfacl -R -m u:$user:r /var/log/
> >
> > This one will give you access to newly created logs files without
> > having to run the above again.
> >
> >
> > setfacl -d -R -m u:$user:r /var/log/
>
> Thanks. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work - kwrite still shows an
> empty file even though I can see the size of it indicating that it is
> quite big.
Have you tried KSystemlog Anne, its part of kdeadmin
I had forgotten about that, but...
"The file '/var/log/syslog' doesn't exist - and it doesn't of
course.
Anne
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