Sudo and limited rights

[Thomas Moschny]

2011/10/31 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>:
> [root at borg2 ~]# > tail /var/log/dmesg
> -bash: /var/log/dmesg: Permission denied

Well, if you really typed what you quoted here, that's not surprising:
You tried to _execute_ /var/log/dmesg and redirect the output to a
"tail" file in the current working directory. Could you try again
without the ">", please?

- Thomas