Re: Permissions on /var/log/ files

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:57:02PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:02:47PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > > Note that if you're using the systemd journal (and you are, in recent
> > > Fedora, including persistent logging to disk with F19), adding yourself to
> > > the 'systemd-journal' group will allow you to see system logs with
> > > 'journalctl'.
> > This doesn't seem to work.
> >   $ journalctl 
> >   Unprivileged users cannot access messages, unless persistent log storage is
> >   enabled. Users in the 'systemd-journal' group may always access messages.
> >   $ groups jallad
> >   jallad : jallad mock systemd-journal
> >   $ whoami
> >   jallad
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> Type "groups" without your username to show your _current_ groups --
> remember that adding yourself to a group doesn't take effect until you start
> a new session. (E.g. by logging out and in again.)

That must be it.  I did not relogin after adding myself to the group.  I
have lots of important sessions that I do not want to close now.
However I tried this on my server, everything works after relogin.

Thanks!

-- 
Suvayu

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