Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 12:28:32PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 16 January 2016 10:57:55 Curt wrote:
>
> > On 2016-01-16, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > >> So its full path is /home/gene/eagle-7.5.0/bin/eagle, not
> > >> /bin/eagle?
> > >>
> > >> Lisi
> > >
> > > I was cd'd to /home/gene/eagle-7.5.0 and the command issued was
> > > bin/eagle, which is perfectly legal syntax.
> >
> > Not if bin is not in your path it isn't.
>
> Oh? Since when? Neither is /home/gene/log, but I use that regularly in
> several scrips and from the command line since I have a
> user=me "tail -fn100 log/fetchmail.log" running in a console tab right
I think you'll find the 'tail' command is in your path, in this
instance.
> now. I long ago got sick and tired of fighting with permissions on
> stuff in /var/log that I ought to be able to read.
That's debatable, e.g. if I was sys admin of a multiuser system I
wouldn't any Tom Dick or Harry perusing the logs.
If you want to to query the logs get root to add you to the 'admin'
group.
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