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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Log file - permission Post 20309 by Kelam_Magnus on Wednesday 24th of April 2002 12:42:33 PM
Old 04-24-2002
That is a good workaround. However, I would set it to fire off every 5 minutes.

1,6,11,16,21, etc... * * * * chmod 660 logfile


One other thing, in HPUX in the CDE or TUI (text user interface) we can manage logfiles. Maybe you have a tool that manages logfiles from an OS perspective, like where they are, permissions etc ...

Do you have anything like this?



Smilie
 

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NAME
petitboot-twin -- Petitboot twin bootloader UI SYNOPSIS
petitboot-twin [-d, --start-daemon] [-h, --help] [-l, --log log-file] [-V, --version] [-f, --fbdev] [-x, --x11] DESCRIPTION
petitboot-twin is a twin based interface to the Petitboot bootloader. Petitboot is a Linux kexec based bootloader that supports loading Linux kernel and initrd images from any device that can be mounted by Linux. It can also load images from the network using the HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, SFTP, and TFTP protocols. OPTIONS
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