Permissions on /var/log/ files

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:02:47PM +0200, Suvayu Ali 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?

Type "groups" without your username to show your _current_ groups --
remember that adding yourself to a group doesn't take effect until you start
a new session. (E.g. by logging out and in again.)

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