#7204 LOW Never A: Log activity enhancement

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#7204: Log activity enhancement
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 Reporter:  mikus        |       Owner:  jg                               
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                              
 Priority:  low          |   Milestone:  Never Assigned                   
Component:  distro       |     Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:               |    Verified:  0                                
 Blocking:               |   Blockedby:                                   
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 Was looking at Log-9.xo with a recent Joyride.  Let me suggest enhancing
 its "user friendliness":

  **  When logs provide a time-stamp, it gets shown in 'Unix' format.  Time
 stamps would be more useful if shown in "human-readable" format.

  **  The table of contents on the left lists 'wtmp'.  But if that is
 selected, the panel on the right says "Can't open file '/var/log/wtmp'".
 That file *is* there (with read permission).  [To show '/var/log/wtmp'
 content in human-readable form, special formatting would be required.]

  **  The 'dmesg' output is whatever is recorded in 'var/log/dmesg'.  More
 up-to-date information would be available to the user if the activity
 itself were to issue the 'dmesg' command and show its output (root
 privilege required).

  **  The "log output" of the activity shows that it was unable to access
 those files (principally 'messages') in '/var/log' which require root
 permission.

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