Create group with read access to log files

[Adithyan]

Friends,

I would like to create a 5 member group which should have read only access to all the system logs (/var/log/messages..etc)

How do I do this. I could see by default the /var/log/message has a permission of 600.

Please help.

Regds...Adi.

[Ivan Ferreira]

You could use sudo to allow the more/less/cat/grep/head/tail commands specifically for the /var/log/messages file.

[Adithyan]

Hi Evan, thannks for the prompt reply. I have a series of other log files also to be given the same thing like apps logs. Could you give me a sample procedure, how to do it with sudo?

Thanks,
Adi.

[dirk dierickx]

http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/intro.html

[Dennis Handly]

>How do I do this? I could see by default the /var/log/message has a permission of 600.

You would have to change the group of the files and /var/log/message to your new group and add group read (and execute for that directory).