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covici@××××××××××.com writes: |
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> Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:26 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote: |
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>> > Hi, |
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>> > how do you read the log files when using syslog-ng? |
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>> > The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too |
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>> > well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. |
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>> > Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons |
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>> > might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. |
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>> If you're talking about /var/log/messages, which is: |
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>> messages: data |
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>> I use cat(1). |
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> I wonder if the OP is using systemd and trying to read the journal |
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> files? |
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Nooo, I hate systemd ... |
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What good are log files you can't read? If syslog-ng would actually use |
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some binary format, I'd have switched to something else. |
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Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons |
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might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. |
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