On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Rob Healey <robhealey1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings: > > I was trying to look at the system messages this evening, and this is what I > got... > > [root@BurningBushes ~]# grep shell | /var/log/messages > -bash: /var/log/messages: Permission denied You were attempting to pipe the output of `grep shell` to a program called `/var/log/messages`. '/var/log/messages' is not executable, so bash fails with that permission denied error. Since you're missing the third argument to `grep`, it waits for input from stdin to search, which is why you had to CTRL+C to get back to the shell. Drop the pipe symbol so the command reads `grep shell /var/log/messages` and you'll instead search /var/log/messages for "shell". ;-) > It didn't display anything on my terminal window, and I had to do a > [Control] C to get out of it... -T.C. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
