On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:55 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
what didn't work? did you try the logger command? ron
