Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:28:11 +0200 > Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > >> 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? >> >> > > I use elogviewer in preference to elogv, no issues here. My perms: > > # ls -ld /var/log/portage /var/log/portage/elog > drwxrws--- 3 portage portage 315392 Feb 18 12:19 /var/log/portage > drwxrwsr-x 2 portage portage 24576 Feb 18 12:19 /var/log/portage/elog > >
I changed mine to run as root a long time ago. I could view the logs but I could not delete the old ones when I was done. That would give a permissions error. I just tried it again just now as a user and it spits out this when I try to clear the logs: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: <some file name here> I would think that is normal. Viewing logs can be done by everyone but clearing requires more permissions. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
