Permissions on /var/log/ files

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:59:00PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 16:18 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:59:35PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > > I'm tired of saying "sudo less /var/log/maillog" or "messages".
> > 
> > For /var/log/messages you could use `dmesg -T | less +G' instead.
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> 
> That's not quite the same thing, at least on my system.

Yes you are right.  It shows only hardware events I think.


PS: I guess I'm not thinking straight today.  This thread has plenty of
    evidence to that. :-/

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