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On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 08:59:56AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 04:27:42PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>> I don't often here fail to find a current /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I think what's
>> happening is the one in .local/share/ is getting copied to /var/log/ so that it
>> remains available in the location people historically expect, where Googling
>> will suggest to look, plus the typing is easier with no shifts required and
>> fewer characters to type.
>
>Absolutely not true in my case.
>
>wooledg:~$ ls -l /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46028 Apr 10 10:13 /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>wooledg:~$ ls -l ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
>-rw-r--r-- 1 wooledg voice 24472 Jul 24 08:10 /home/wooledg/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
>
>How would your idea even *work*?

You'd need some sort of system logging daemon. Something which runs with
the privileges necessary to write to the log file, and which can accept
log messages from unprivileged processes, perhaps by listening on a UNIX
socket.

Just making a suggestion.

>The X server can't write to /var/log because it doesn't have EUID 0
>privileges any more.  It writes to this file in the home directory
>because that's the only place it's sure to be able to open.
>
>There's simply no short-cutting it: the X server's log can be in either
>of these two places, and you need to check both.
>

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video driver - new thread "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2017-07-22 19:50 +0200
  Re: video driver - new thread Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-07-22 20:00 +0200
    Re: video driver - new thread "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2017-07-22 21:20 +0200
  Re: video driver - new thread Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-07-22 20:40 +0200
    Re: video driver - new thread "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2017-07-22 21:10 +0200
      Re: video driver - new thread Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-22 21:30 +0200
        Re: video driver - new thread Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-22 22:00 +0200
          Re: video driver - new thread Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-22 22:30 +0200
            Re: video driver - new thread Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-07-24 15:10 +0200
              Re: video driver - new thread Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-07-24 15:30 +0200
                Re: video driver - new thread Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-07-24 15:50 +0200
                Re: video driver - new thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-07-24 17:20 +0200
  Re: video driver - new thread "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2017-07-24 02:00 +0200
    Re: video driver - new thread David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-07-24 02:40 +0200
    Re: video driver - new thread Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-24 04:30 +0200
      [SOLVED] - Re: video driver - new thread "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2017-07-25 21:20 +0200
        Re: [SOLVED] - Re: video driver - new thread <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-07-25 21:50 +0200
          Re: [SOLVED] video driver - new thread Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-26 03:50 +0200

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