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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] Rewritten XendLogging to not be a si

To: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] Rewritten XendLogging to not be a singleton class, and not have methods used
From: Dan Smith <danms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:44:03 -0700
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EM> xm help doesn't cause any logging for me, so there's actually no
EM> file created.  I don't know why else someone would be running xm
EM> as a non-privileged user -- perhaps someone who does so could
EM> speak up?

I think that xm should be at least able to run "help" and "help
--long" as non-root.  It should definitely be able to do so without a
stack trace.  I don't like blindly running tools as root before I at
least get a chance to look at the help output as a non-root user.

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Dan Smith
IBM Linux Technology Center
Open Hypervisor Team
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