[ILUG] quick Debian question

[Niall O Broin]

On Tuesday 27 April 2004, cian at medialabeurope.org (Cian Cullinan) wrote:

>On Tuesday 27 April 2004 02:45, Justin Mason wrote:
>: Hi all --
>:
>: a quick Debian question.  I've migrated from Dead Rat/Fedora Core
with
>: quite a lot of success, except for one niggling annoyance -- the way
>: debian chmods most of the /var/log files to mode 600.
>:
>: I'm on a single-user machine.  I don't want to have to sudo to check
>: a logfile.  Is there a way to override this to 644?
>:
>: --j.
>
>
>Just migrated from RH -> Debian myself but how about:
>adduser yournamehere adm

How is adding yournamehere to adm (or to any other group, for that
matter) going to help Justin read logs with 600 permissions?




Niall