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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:16 am Post subject: non-root user tail -f /var/log/messages

I love the way that non root users don't even see alot of executables but I need a regular user to tail the /var/log/messages but I get a permission denied. Should I add the user to a specific group? All help is appreciated.

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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:58 am Post subject:

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# ls -lh /var/log/messages
-rw------- 1 root root 8.8K Mar 19 05:31 /var/log/messages

Either you'll have to change the group to some other group and add any user you want to be able to read the file to that group and change the permissions to 540 on /var/log/messages, or change them to 504 and allow any user to read the file, which is probably the least desirable way.
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