Permissions on /var/log/ files

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:21:20AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
> Note that if you're using the systemd journal (and you are, in recent
> Fedora, including persistent logging to disk with F19), adding yourself to
> the 'systemd-journal' group will allow you to see system logs with
> 'journalctl'.

This doesn't seem to work.

  $ journalctl 
  Unprivileged users cannot access messages, unless persistent log storage is
  enabled. Users in the 'systemd-journal' group may always access messages.
  $ groups jallad
  jallad : jallad mock systemd-journal
  $ whoami
  jallad

Any thoughts?

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Suvayu

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