"Could not open the following files:"

[pharrisire]

In the Log Viewer, an alert says:

Could not open the following files:
/var/log/ppp.log: You don't have enough permissions to read the file.
/var/log/debug.log: You don't have enough permissions to read the file.
/var/log/cron: You don't have enough permissions to read the file.
/var/log/xferlog: You don't have enough permissions to read the file.
/var/log/lpd: Error stating file '/var/log/lpd': No such file or directory
/var/log/auth.log: You don't have enough permissions to read the file.
/var/log/security: You don't have enough permissions to read the file.
/dev/console: You don't have enough permissions to read the file.

So how do we get 'enough permission' to read these?
Is it a 'Su' command in terminal instead of the Log Viewer?

[Kevin McAleavey]

You don't. Those are all empty files, all part of the base BSD log system for servers, and part of the default logging setup. They belong to "system" but are unused in KNOS. The only log files that are active were written by system prior to KNOS' desktop starting and are the Xorg.0.log and messages files which are readable and are there solely to be picked up by KNOS Diagnostics if required. You should be able to see lpd-errors and maillog from that viewer - all the other files have identical nothingness in them given that they're reserved by BSD for logging of server activity, and KNOS isn't a server OS. Since it is necessary to access those two files for diagnostics, the remainder of the logging system was left intact but unused.

Permissions are not available to read "system" since system is no longer available to anyone once KNOS is booted. That's part of our security design to completely isolate the user from the system.