Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 117129
wb 2, ch 6: Example implies root access
Last modified: 2007-04-18 13:03:41 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: Workbook 2. Filesystem Basics Chapter 6. Examining Files Examples: Example 5. Monitoring Multiple Files with tail The example shows root running "tail -f messages secure" in /var/log, but my understanding of the course structure is that the students won't have root access on their machines at this point and won't be able to try this example. The only logs I see that may provide a reasonable substitute are the access_log and error_log in /var/log/cups. Of course, the students haven't seen printing yet, so those are bad examples too. Ony other way I can think to show tail -f in action is a contrived "echo 'hello' >>file" example. Maybe it'd be best just to put off showing this feature of tail entirely. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: n/a Additional info:
My thoughts: 1) it's important feature i'd like to introduce early 2) i don't want to show an artificial situation 3) its an example, not a question or a lab exercise for now, i'm temetped to leave it, but i'm open to a good solution of one comes along....