[X4U] Re: system.log permissions

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On Feb 23, 2006, at 4:23 PM, John Azevedo wrote:

> Since running as a non-admin user I can no longer view the system  
> log in Console. How can I change permissions to allow me to view  
> the system log from a non-admin account?

In Terminal.app

	chmod a+r /private/var/log/system.log

chmod a+r: 	

	chmod (change file access permissions, see 'man chmod')

	a = all users
	+ = add permission
	r = read

So in English, "Change the permissions of /private/var/log/system.log  
so that everyone can read it"

Note that whenever you do "repair permissions" it will likely remove  
the "r"ead bit and revert the permissions to the default, which seems  
to be:

-rw-r-----  1 root admin 88 Feb 24 12:46 /private/var/log/system.log

at least on my system

TjL