[gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use "elogv" as a non-root user?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

This isn't an important issue, but it still bugs me a bit (curiosity 
killed the cat.)  Some while ago (no idea when exactly, could be 6 
months ago or a year ago), I stopped being able to use "elogv" as a 
regular user.  Something had changed the permissions of the 
"/var/log/portage" and  "/var/log/portage/elog" directories.  The only 
thing I know for sure, is that it wasn't me who changed them (and I'm 
the only user of that machine.)

See the related bug report:
  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404413

So I have a question: did anyone else here notice this as well?  What is 
the output of:

  ls -ld /var/log/portage /var/log/portage/elog

on your system?