On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 02:36:44PM +0000, Tom Huckstep wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:34:44AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > > Instead could you change the permissions of the logfile to be 0640 and > > keep the directory as 755. This makes it convient if you are a system > > administrater as you can look in the directory and perform actions such > > as "sudo zgrep parse /var/log/polipo/*.[0-9].gz". > > You could also do "sudo -u proxy -s" to get a shell with proxy permissions.
Sure but that was just intended to be the specific example that caused me to file this report. There are a number of other things that become cumbersome as well. No doubt each have their own specific solution -- but they aren't an issue if the directory is 755. Cheers, Anand -- linux.conf.au 2005 - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - Birthplace of Tux April 18th to 23rd - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - LINUX Canberra, Australia - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - Get bitten! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
