On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:30 AM, ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:55 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:18 PM, ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> note that those files are append-only. >>> >>> logs on unix are writeable by everyone: >>> [rminn...@panzer ~]$ logger -p kern.err "JUNK" >>> [rminn...@panzer ~]$ sudo tail -f /var/log/messages >>> >>> Mar 16 04:15:03 Panzer rminnich: JUNK >>> >> >> This didn't work on my linux box. I actually have: >> >> % ls -l /var/log/messages >> -rw------- 1 root root 960355 2009-03-15 23:51 /var/log/messages >> > > > what didn't work? did you try the logger command? >
Yep. Nothing happened to the logs. > ron > >
