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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Friday 2007-03-23 at 21:36 +0100, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:

> So I have written a small service script to check the ink level every 
> 60 seconds, and log that to a file in /root/. /root is where I keep 
> all my system setting notes and system scripts, and I considder the 
> ink level log a system wide "thing".
> I wish for alle users to be able to see the ink level log. Thus the 
> changed permissions of /root. There is nothing "secret" in /root that 
> I am aware of.
> I also wish to keep the number of directories to back up to a 
> minimum -- /root and /home.
> Thus I have opted _not_ to put the ink level log in a directory 
> outside /root or /home.


I think it would be better to log things to the log directory, which exist 
for that very purpose ;-)

Ie, log to somewhere under /var/log, and give the file the appropiate 
permission to be read by all.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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