Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

[Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>]

On 26/09/20 2:47 pm, David Wright wrote:
> If you make yourself a member of the adm group, you can read your logs
> as a normal user. You'd need to type into any terminal
> 
> $ sudo addgroup myloginname adm
> 
> replacing myloginname as appropriate, but you will need to login again
> before the addgroup command will have any effect.

I think you mean adduser rather than addgroup there:

$ sudo adduser myloginname adm

You're adding the user to the group, rather than the group to the user :-)

Richard