Re: /var/log growing rapidly

["s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>]

Michael Wagner <michaeldebian@web.de>:
>  * s. keeling <keeling@nucleus.com> 26.11.2008
> > Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>:
> > > 
> > >  so... what is xconsole?
> > 
> > In practice, it's very difficult to get X to let root put a root
> > owned process on a user's display, and once you get it going, the
> > next Debian release breaks your tweak, at least in my experience.

I should admit, this is not Debian specific.  Xconsole has been a lot
of trouble for me on many distros.

>  you can also put your user in the group *adm* which has _only_ the
>  rights to _read_ logfiles in /var/log and to _read_ /dev/xconsole, but

Thank you very much!  I'll try this.  I had my regular user acct. in
adm at one point, but decided it was possibly unwise.

>  no more. I don't see a disadvantage by doing this. And this way
>  everything works right even after a new release or updates of your
>  current system.

Much appreciated.  :-)


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