permissions problem while reading log file

[Colin Law]

On 16 January 2013 20:15, Abhishek Dixit <abhidixit87 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to read a log file to see if squid-deb-proxy server is running or not
> so I do
>
> tail: cannot open `squid-deb-proxy/access.log' for reading: Permission
> denied
>
>  tail -f squid-deb-proxy/access.log

You should use
 sudo tail -f /var/log/squid-deb-proxy/access.log

Colin