i downloded a karamba theme and its supposed to chow the system logs on the desktop but i cant get into this file..

heres instalation readme

logview - 1.0
# Date: 17/10/2003
#
# If logged in as root..then there is no problem
# But if not, then you have to change the permissions of files in /var/log
# Eg. /var/log/syslog
# <Shreenath Deshpande>--<http://pande.tk/>--<mdshreenath@yahoo.com>


so here i logged in as root and even tried to change permissions...

i pressed ctrl alt f2 and logged in as root
then

[joe@x1-6-00-4c-69-6e-75-79 log]$ su
Password:
[root@x1-6-00-4c-69-6e-75-79 log]# chmod a+rxw ./ && stat ./
File: `./'
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 345h/837d Inode: 163531 Links: 11
Access: (0777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2003-11-23 06:49:18.000000000 -0500
Modify: 2003-11-23 04:02:51.000000000 -0500
Change: 2003-11-23 06:49:41.000000000 -0500

[root@x1-6-00-4c-69-6e-75-79 log]# chmod a+rxw ./ && stat ./syslog
File: `./syslog'
Size: 666210 Blocks: 1312 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 345h/837d Inode: 173630 Links: 1
Access: (0640/-rw-r-----) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 4/ adm)
Access: 2003-11-19 09:24:33.000000000 -0500
Modify: 2003-11-23 06:42:10.000000000 -0500
Change: 2003-11-23 06:42:10.000000000 -0500

[root@x1-6-00-4c-69-6e-75-79 log]# chmod +x /logsys
chmod: failed to get attributes of `/logsys': No such file or directory
[root@x1-6-00-4c-69-6e-75-79 log]# chmod 777 /syslog
chmod: failed to get attributes of `/syslog': No such file or directory
[root@x1-6-00-4c-69-6e-75-79 log]# wtf
bash: wtf: command not found
[root@x1-6-00-4c-69-6e-75-79 log]#


heres a link to the app...
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=8466

thanks in advance for the help guys

[root@x1-6-00-4c-69-6e-75-79 log]# chmod +x /logsys
chmod: failed to get attributes of `/logsys': No such file or directory

--you have /logsys (as in logsys in your root directory) should be ./logsys (dot-slash)

[root@x1-6-00-4c-69-6e-75-79 log]# chmod 777 /syslog
chmod: failed to get attributes of `/syslog': No such file or directory\

--Same thing here as above

[root@x1-6-00-4c-69-6e-75-79 log]# wtf
bash: wtf: command not found

--This command is only available on "enterprise" versions

[root@x1-6-00-4c-69-6e-75-79 log]#

lol ill try it thanks

cool thanks man....

what does the ./ do?

when do i need to use it? on files not folders?

When a command is not in your present $PATH, using a ./<command> tells bash to look in the PWD to execute the command.