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 Colin -- Fedora 15 (Lovelock) Registered Linux user number #342953 _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org