* Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> [120218 14:59]: > This isn't an important issue, but it still bugs me a bit (curiosity > killed the cat.) Some while ago (no idea when exactly, could be 6 > months ago or a year ago), I stopped being able to use "elogv" as a > regular user. Something had changed the permissions of the > "/var/log/portage" and "/var/log/portage/elog" directories. The only > thing I know for sure, is that it wasn't me who changed them (and I'm > the only user of that machine.) > > See the related bug report: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404413 > > So I have a question: did anyone else here notice this as well? What is > the output of: > > ls -ld /var/log/portage /var/log/portage/elog > > on your system? >
I seem to remember an emerge that changed the permissions of some log files (I had to change /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf to add the owner(root) and group(logcheck) options.) I don't know if other files changed or if the directory permissions changed at that time? Todd
