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Originally Posted by JGJONES58
I am investigating an issue involving a mail relay and the maillog file. I need to see what the error that was associated with a failed mail forward yesterday, but can't seem to grep, less or vi the file, as I get "permission denied."
Does this mean I need a sysadmin to give me privileges to read the file? I thought all files on a UNIX system could at least be "read" if the file was not going to be written to ...
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No, you thought wrong! And system log files are generally restricted access, mail logs doubly so - or should be anyway!
Yes, you will need someone with correct permissions to get that information for you.