From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 2 19:15:14 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 14FD537B401 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:15:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C04D643E75 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:15:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([12.231.115.57]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021103031512.BVFG14374.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@mac.com>; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 03:15:12 +0000 Message-ID: <3DC494AF.6070609@mac.com> Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 19:14:55 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021101 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Pelletier Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting permissions References: <200211030221.gA32Lnw12219@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <007801c282df$9a963b90$32040101@hume> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 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)? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ A computer, to print out a fact, Will divide, multiply, and subtract. But this output can be No more than debris, If the input was short of exact. -- Gigo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message