----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry McAllister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charles Pelletier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 8:21 PM Subject: Re: setting permissions
> > > > i want to be able to run tail while NOT in root. is there a quick way to > > give permission to another user solely for the purpose of running tail? > > What do you want to run tail on? It doesn't require root unless > the file is read-only root. Or is this some other tail? > > ////jerry this, exactly, is what i am doing: tail -f /var/log/security and i get permission denied if i don't run it as root. Charles Pelletier Tech. Coordinator St Luke's School To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
