Permission Access Denied

jec25 · 02-09-2010, 10:52 PM

I was trying to open a log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log and was access denied. I was login as root. Can someone please explain why is this? Thanks.

eckirchn · 02-09-2010, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by jec25

I was trying to open a log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log and was access denied. I was login as root. Can someone please explain why is this? Thanks.

Can you post the results of:

ls -la /var/log/X*

My results:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14051 2010-02-09 18:45 /var/log/Xorg.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13978 2010-02-07 16:00 /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13560 2010-02-08 18:44 /var/log/Xorg.1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14469 2010-02-06 13:22 /var/log/Xorg.1.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13560 2010-02-09 18:45 /var/log/Xorg.2.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13978 2010-02-06 13:23 /var/log/Xorg.2.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2018 2010-01-27 19:35 /var/log/Xorg.3.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7172 2010-01-14 23:32 /var/log/Xorg.3.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7172 2010-01-14 23:32 /var/log/Xorg.4.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7172 2010-01-14 23:32 /var/log/Xorg.4.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7172 2010-01-14 23:32 /var/log/Xorg.5.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7172 2010-01-14 23:32 /var/log/Xorg.5.log.old

Floyd

worm5252 · 02-09-2010, 11:03 PM

Also post the output of whoami

chrism01 · 02-10-2010, 12:22 AM

Which distro & version have you got? XFree86 was superseded by Xorg some yrs ago ...

jec25 · 02-10-2010, 05:11 PM

echkirchn wrote:

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ls -la /var/log/X*

No such file or directory

worm5252 wrote:

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Also post the output of whoami

root

chrism01 wrote:

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Which distro & version have you got? XFree86 was superseded by Xorg some yrs ago ...

I'm using SuSE 9.0, I know it's old but the computer is being use with other computer with the same linux system.