There's a great little app on the Market called "log collector" programmatically reads the logcat output and emails it to someone (I've had my customers do this several times when they encountered problems that I couldn't reproduce).
Happily, it looks like this app is open source: http://code.google.com/p/android-log-collector/ and the permission that Dianne was referring to appears to be: <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_LOGS" /> Enjoy, Steve On Sep 6, 3:11 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > You don't need to run as root, you don't need to run as system, you just > need to be in the group that can access the log driver, which I am pretty > sure there is a non-privileged permission for. > > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Chris Stratton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sep 5, 3:44 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > logcat doesn't need to run as root. > > > Technically true, it usually runs as system, but that also seems out > > of reach for an ordinary application on the phone... wheras adb gets > > you a shell as this semi privileged uid. It probably is possible to > > use the adb shell to make something setuid system which an application > > or app launched terminal could use to escalate, but finding a place to > > put it is a challenge (though not an inconquerable one). > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
