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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:30:38 -0700
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] log oversight
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On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:55 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:18 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>> note that those files are append-only.
>>
>> logs on unix are writeable by everyone:
>> [rminnich@Panzer ~]$ logger -p kern.err "JUNK"
>> [rminnich@Panzer ~]$ sudo tail -f /var/log/messages
>>
>> Mar 16 04:15:03 Panzer rminnich: JUNK
>>
>
> This didn't work on my linux box. I actually have:
>
> % ls -l /var/log/messages
> -rw------- 1 root root 960355 2009-03-15 23:51 /var/log/messages
>


what didn't work? did you try the logger command?

ron