On Monday 31 Oct 2011 12:45:18 Anne Wilson wrote:
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.
That's right, but you can set (from memory) the default log it looks at on startup
Colin