On Sunday 17 January 2016 09:14:33 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 12:28:32PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 16 January 2016 10:57:55 Curt wrote: > > > On 2016-01-16, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > >> So its full path is /home/gene/eagle-7.5.0/bin/eagle, not > > > >> /bin/eagle? > > > >> > > > >> Lisi > > > > > > > > I was cd'd to /home/gene/eagle-7.5.0 and the command issued was > > > > bin/eagle, which is perfectly legal syntax. > > > > > > Not if bin is not in your path it isn't. > > > > Oh? Since when? Neither is /home/gene/log, but I use that > > regularly in several scrips and from the command line since I have a > > user=me "tail -fn100 log/fetchmail.log" running in a console tab > > right > > I think you'll find the 'tail' command is in your path, in this > instance.
tail is the program, not the argument. The argument of course is the list of options between tail and the filename its supposed to look at. > > > now. I long ago got sick and tired of fighting with permissions on > > stuff in /var/log that I ought to be able to read. > > That's debatable, e.g. if I was sys admin of a multiuser system I > wouldn't any Tom Dick or Harry perusing the logs. > > If you want to to query the logs get root to add you to the 'admin' > group. I hadn't thought of that. My bad. OTOH, although no one has come thru the router except to view my web page, do I really want to do that in the event they do get thru? That could make their raising a little hell just that much easier. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
