Re: plog

[Ben Collins <bmc@visi.net>]

On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote:
> When I type plog I get this:
>
> tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied
>
> the attributes for ppp.log are
> -rw-r-----   1 root     adm          8305 Jan 14 20:38 /var/log/ppp.log
>
> What can I do to change this?

You have to run plog as root. The reason that ppp.log isn't world
readable is that your ppp password is more than likely in the log file.

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