Mick wrote: > On Sunday 24 Jun 2012 19:27:36 Dale wrote: >> Jarry wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I have just checked my machines and I found I have basically >>> two groups of settings ("ls -al" in /var/log/portage/elog/): >>> >>> A) >>> drwxrws--- 2 portage root 4096 Jun 24 03:10 . >>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 7 2009 .. >>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage root 57760 Jun 22 15:11 summary.log >>> >>> B) >>> drwxrwsr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Jun 24 13:30 . >>> drwxrws--- 3 portage portage 4096 Nov 3 2011 .. >>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 1132 Jun 22 17:28 summary.log >>> >>> Not only "summary.log", but also /var/log/portage/ and >>> /var/log/portage/elog/ have quite different permissions. >>> I'm sure I never changed it manually, the only difference >>> is that "A" group has been installed 3 yers ago, while "B" >>> just recently (but both regulary updated). >>> >>> So is the "B-version" correct one? >>> >>> Jarry >> This is my thinking on why it may be different for different folks. >> This first tho. I run emerge as root. I have not added my regular user >> to the portage group. I have no memory of messing with the permissions >> either. >> >> I think that if you use a regular user to emerge some things, it gets >> set to portage:portage or some mix of portage:root. If you always run >> emerge as root, then you get root:root. It may be that this is only set >> once or that it could be modified if you run as root then later on run >> as a user. >> >> For the record, mine is set to root:root. As mentioned above, I ALWAYS >> run emerge as root. >> >> Any one have thoughts on this? >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > I always run emerge as root. > > elog is owned by portage:root, summary.log within it as portage:root, other > log files within /var/log/portage are owned by portage:portage.
So those that allow users to run would have the same permissions as everyone else. Now I wonder why they vary from system to system then. It seems to me, they should be the same for everyone. Just seems odd. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"