From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 2 18:36: 2 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 143BF37B401 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:36:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from ene.asda.gr (ene.asda.gr [193.92.118.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F9B43E6E for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:36:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lefty@ene.asda.gr) Received: from ene.asda.gr (lefty.ene.asda.gr [193.92.118.162]) (authenticated bits=0) by ene.asda.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA32ZlbA047243; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 04:35:48 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from lefty@ene.asda.gr) Message-ID: <3DC48B99.B2DAE715@ene.asda.gr> Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 04:36:09 +0200 From: Lefteris Tsintjelis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,el MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Pelletier Cc: Jerry McAllister , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting permissions References: <200211030221.gA32Lnw12219@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <007801c282df$9a963b90$32040101@hume> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 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 -rw------- 1 root wheel - 0 Oct 9 15:46 /var/log/security Only root can tail that file unless u chmod (highly NOT recommended). If u choose to do so u must also change newsyslog.conf. > this, exactly, is what i am doing: > tail -f /var/log/security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message