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Date:      Sat, 02 Nov 2002 19:14:55 -0800
From:      paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
To:        Charles Pelletier <fozekizer@attbi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: setting permissions
Message-ID:  <3DC494AF.6070609@mac.com>
References:  <200211030221.gA32Lnw12219@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <007801c282df$9a963b90$32040101@hume>

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Charles Pelletier wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

any reason why you can't use sudo(8)?



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