Re: write protecting syslog

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 02/25/02


On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, paolo greco wrote:

>Well, i run once circle as root, but it was an error.
>If you'll run it as root, the syslog permissions maybe will screw up...

That's because when you run 'autorun' as root it rotates the logs. So
CircleMUD creates a new log owned by root.  Then since you're not root, you
can't write to it.

--
George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org

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