Re: /var/log/messages permissions issue...
Dear TC: Thanks for the help and for the understanding what and why it did happen! Sincerely yours, Rob G. Healey From: "T.C. Hollingsworth" To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases < test@lists.fedoraproject.org> Cc: Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:24:39 -0700 Subject: Re: /var/log/messages permissions issue... On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Rob Healey 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@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: /var/log/messages permissions issue...
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Rob Healey 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@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: /var/log/messages permissions issue...
try cat /var/log/messages |grep shell - Original Message - > From: "Rob Healey" > To: "Fedora Development List" > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 11:18:59 AM > Subject: /var/log/messages permissions issue... > > > 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 > > It didn't display anything on my terminal window, and I had to do a > [Control] C to get out of it... > > -- > Sincerely yours, > Rob G. Healey > > > -- > test mailing list > test@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
