Robert Wolfe wrote to Alan Ianson:

RW> AI> I'm just tring to setup mball so it can read the web/ftp server log to
RW> AI> update the download count of downloaded files. Both of those logs are
RW> AI> owned by root:root and nobody else can even read them. How can I
RW> AI> change that so mball can read those files? More of a linux question
RW> AI> than MBSE, I just wonder how you guys have done that.
RW> 
RW> I'd thrown a 'chown' command into the script that you have set up that
RW> runs and creates the statistics file.  Then again, that's just the way
RW> that I personally would do it.

Yep, I did a quick chown from the command line so mball could read
those files, but I suspect that somewhere down the line it'll revert
back to being unreadable.
RW> 

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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