On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:18 PM, ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: > note that those files are append-only. > > logs on unix are writeable by everyone: > [rminn...@panzer ~]$ logger -p kern.err "JUNK" > [rminn...@panzer ~]$ sudo tail -f /var/log/messages > > Mar 16 04:15:03 Panzer rminnich: JUNK >
This didn't work on my linux box. I actually have: % ls -l /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 960355 2009-03-15 23:51 /var/log/messages > > ron > >