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From: "Charles Pelletier" <fozekizer@attbi.com>
To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: setting permissions
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:20:39 -0600
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To: "Charles Pelletier" <fozekizer@attbi.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: setting permissions


> >
> > i want to be able to run tail while NOT in root. is there a quick way to
> > give permission to another user solely for the purpose of running tail?
>
> What do you want to run tail on?   It doesn't require root unless
> the file is read-only root.  Or is this some other tail?
>
> ////jerry


this, exactly, is what i am doing:
tail -f /var/log/security

and i get permission denied if i don't run it as root.


Charles Pelletier
Tech. Coordinator
St Luke's School




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