From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 2 18:21:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EF7037B401 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:21:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A92A543E3B for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:21:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gA32Lnw12219; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 21:21:49 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200211030221.gA32Lnw12219@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: setting permissions To: fozekizer@attbi.com (Charles Pelletier) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 21:21:49 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <004201c282d1$8ddf1ba0$32040101@hume> from "Charles Pelletier" at Nov 02, 2002 06:40:05 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 > Charles Pelletier > Tech. Coordinator > St Luke's School > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message