Question re logdir perms

[Mike McCarty]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 06 January 2007 17:49, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
>>Greetings all;
>>
>>I would like to convert a utility so it can run as a normal user.
>>However, this normal user has no write perms to /var/log and therefore
>>cannot generate its log file.
>>
>>Whats the normal procedure in this case, make that user a member of the
>>group disk?, or make a subdir in /var/log this user then owns?
>>
>>I can do either, the latter easier than trying to figure out chmod from
>>its obtuse manpage.
>>
> 
> Does the log file have to be in /var/log?  If this is being run as a user, 
> couldn't the appropriate conf file set the log path to a home directory?  I 
> know that some applications do this.

This sounds like a better approach to me, as well.

Mike
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