Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 19/02/12 04:00, Dale wrote: >> I changed mine to run as root a long time ago. I could view the logs >> but I could not delete the old ones when I was done. That would give a >> permissions error. I just tried it again just now as a user and it >> spits out this when I try to clear the logs: >> >> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:<some file name here> >> >> I would think that is normal. Viewing logs can be done by everyone but >> clearing requires more permissions. > > No, it's not normal. If your user is in the portage group, then you > should be able to delete portage logs. So it seems your system is > suffering from the same thing. > > The fix for this is in the bug report I linked to, btw. > > >
I don't have my user is the portage group so for my system, it is normal. I didn't realize you put your user in the portage group. That changes things. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
