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MkConsole

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Permissions in Leo

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Contributed by: sevenup Wednesday, June 25 2008 @ 05:21 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

If you run most of the time on Leopard as non-admin neither Geektool or MKconsole can show you /var/log/system.log because of lack of permissions. Somehow Console.app manages to in "Log Database Queries" but NOT directly. Is any of this registering with anyone? I am torn between thinking you should not have routine access to system.log as a regular user, but I also need to see it, so for convenience I would like to solve this.

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Permissions in Leo - erikdoe

In Leopard you can give MkConsole access to the system log files by making it run with "admin" group privileges, even when you are not in the admin group. You need the command line to do so:

cd MkConsole.app/Contents/MacOS
sudo chgrp admin MkConsole
sudo chmod 2755 MkConsole

The same works for the element version.

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