Re: setting up sudo for tail

[Duane Powers <duane@uberLAN.net>]

Adam Olsen wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:49:32AM +0000, Jim Breton wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:38:10AM +0000, Adam Olsen wrote:
> >
> > > So my question: how do I set this up properly?
> >
> > Not with sudo. ;)
> >
> > chgrp adm /var/log/syslog # change group of file to "adm"
> > adduser (yourself) adm # put yourself into group "adm"
> >
> > logout
> >
> > log in again
> > :bam:
> >
> > ;D

Hey, I've got a question, if you do the above, after the next cron 
logrotate runs, and it touches new files, will they too be chown'd
to adm? Would that be in the logrotate.conf? (Perhaps I should look,
ok, no reference to ownership in logrotate.conf ... continuing...)
Will they just inherit the properties of the prior file?

~duane


> You know, I've thought about doing that before, but I didn't know
> exactly what adm had access to so I didn't want to add myself.
> Looking now though (just did a find / -group adm), I see it has write
> access to nothing, and only read access to stuff in /var/log,
> /var/account/pacct*, and /dev/xconsole.  The /var/account/pacct files
> are completely empty, so no worries there.  What's /dev/xconsole
> though?
>
> And for the record, is there any way to get sudo working?