On Saturday 06 January 2007 17:49, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I would like to convert a utility so it can run as a normal user. > However, this normal user has no write perms to /var/log and therefore > cannot generate its log file. > > Whats the normal procedure in this case, make that user a member of the > group disk?, or make a subdir in /var/log this user then owns? > > I can do either, the latter easier than trying to figure out chmod from > its obtuse manpage. > Does the log file have to be in /var/log? If this is being run as a user, couldn't the appropriate conf file set the log path to a home directory? I know that some applications do this. Anne
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