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Controlling access to logs

asked 2018-03-24 00:14:05 -0600

The Evil One
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If I call the log viewer from the Application menu I get a message "Unable to read system logs". If I invoke gnome-logs as root user in a terminal I get a message "Unable to read user logs"

To see everything I need to open the logviewer twice, once from activities and once from a terminal set to root and I am not sure that there are not some things still unseen.

How can I get access to all logs at once in one place?

Is it specified somewhere which logonids can access which logs?

Is it specified somewhere what events are logged or that could be logged but currently are not logged?

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answered 2018-03-24 15:17:33 -0600

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You know that little toolbar that tells you that you can’t read logs? The Help button on that toolbar takes you to a useful page.

All you need to do is to add your user to the systemd-journal group. The following command adds the user Jeff to that group:

usermod -a -G systemd-journal Jeff

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Thank you Aeyoun have used this command and now the log viewer no longer has that pesky message and I get access to all logs.

The Evil One ( 2018-03-26 04:22:45 -0600 )edit

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