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Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

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On 26/09/20 2:47 pm, David Wright wrote:
> If you make yourself a member of the adm group, you can read your logs
> as a normal user. You'd need to type into any terminal
> 
> $ sudo addgroup myloginname adm
> 
> replacing myloginname as appropriate, but you will need to login again
> before the addgroup command will have any effect.

I think you mean adduser rather than addgroup there:

$ sudo adduser myloginname adm

You're adding the user to the group, rather than the group to the user :-)

Richard

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Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply anthony gennard <agennae@gmail.com> - 2020-09-25 12:20 +0200
  Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-26 04:50 +0200
    Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply anthony gennard <agennae@gmail.com> - 2020-09-26 13:20 +0200
    Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2020-09-28 07:30 +0200
      Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-28 13:50 +0200
        Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2020-09-28 14:50 +0200
          Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-28 16:20 +0200
          Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-28 16:40 +0200

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