It tries to log the status operation, so although non-root users can see the current status, the lack of permission to write to the log results in an error message.
This changes to log only if the user has the permission to write to the log file. Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <f...@redhat.com> --- utilities/ovs-lib.in | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/utilities/ovs-lib.in b/utilities/ovs-lib.in index 029ed3b..48d0c36 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-lib.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-lib.in @@ -54,7 +54,11 @@ ovs_ctl () { # of ovs-ctl. It is also useful to document the o/p in ovs-ctl.log. display=`"${datadir}/scripts/ovs-ctl" "$@" 2>&1` rc=$? - echo "${display}" | tee -a "${logdir}/ovs-ctl.log" + if test -w "${logdir}/ovs-ctl.log"; then + echo "${display}" | tee -a "${logdir}/ovs-ctl.log" + else + echo "${display}" + fi return ${rc} ;; *) -- 1.8.5.3 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev