syslog error on launching lnav as user

Open ToontjeM opened this issue 4 months ago • 1 comments

lnav version v0.13.2

Describe the bug Not really a bug, just an observation. When launching lnav as user an error gets presented.

√ ~ lnav
✘ error: default syslog file is not readable -- /var/log/syslog

To Reproduce Launch lnav as regular user

Ubuntu 24.04 on Intel

Oct 06 '25 07:10 ToontjeM

Is there something you want me to do here? lnav tries to open the platform's syslog by default and it's not able to do that because it's not readable.

Oct 08 '25 13:10 tstack