On Saturday 06 January 2007 14:00, Anne Wilson wrote: >On Saturday 06 January 2007 17:49, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> I would like to convert a utility so it can run as a normal user. >> However, this normal user has no write perms to /var/log and therefore >> cannot generate its log file. >> >> Whats the normal procedure in this case, make that user a member of >> the group disk?, or make a subdir in /var/log this user then owns? >> >> I can do either, the latter easier than trying to figure out chmod >> from its obtuse manpage. > >Does the log file have to be in /var/log? If this is being run as a > user, couldn't the appropriate conf file set the log path to a home > directory? I know that some applications do this. > >Anne Thanks Anne. I wound up giving it its owned dir in /var/log, and then making the user a member of uucp so the user could access /dev/ttyS1. There are a few more details, but that's the gist of it. Its the new heyu, and I wanted to run it as me rather than root. I even made a logrotate file for it which will get tested in the morning. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
