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 -- 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
