Re: Time Machine causing system to lock?

In article <tepen49bdg10vfmp8eeg812q3gm6sqafr8@xxxxxxx>,
Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:32:40 -0600, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

3. From the Console menu bar, select File > View Console Log.

After the su command,

Here you seem to be suggesting that you are trying to view the system
log from a non-admin Mac OS X user account. Is that in fact the case?

Apparently.

But it's not really apparent, because you haven't given me a straight
answer. ; ) Please answer the question - this is like pulling teeth!
Is your user account an administrator account or not?

You can tell easily by opening System Preferences > Accounts, selecting
(highlighting) your account in the list, and noting the state of the
"Allow user to administer this computer".

Once I got the SU command correct, the console menu
included the log I wanted.

The Console File > Open System Log menu command will not display the
system log if you are logged into a non-administrative Mac OS X user
account. So your statement is confusing.

Again, the terminal commands I gave you, (su admin, cat
/var.log.system.log) have *no effect* on the Console application.

The only way you'd be able to view the system log from within the
Console application is if your Mac OS X user account is an
administrative account, or if you used a special terminal command to
launch the Console application as root, which could not result from the
terminal commands I gave you.

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