Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

[Marc Joliet]

Am Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:45:38 -0600
schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com>:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:29 PM, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:26 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > how do you read the log files when using syslog-ng?
> > > >
> > > > The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too
> > > > well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons
> > > > might swallow us.  Finally, this fear has become reasonable.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > If you're talking about /var/log/messages, which is:
> > > messages: data
> > >
> > > I use cat(1).
> >
> > I wonder if the OP is using systemd and trying to read the journal
> > files?
>
> Those live under /var/lib/journal (which you need to create; Gentoo doesn't
> do it by default last time I saw)
[...]

It did on my laptop after I migrated it to systemd over the weekend (on a whim,
no less -- apparently I'm adventurous?). Or, to be more precise, I didn't have
to create the directory myself. And wouldn't it be created at run-time, anyway?
That's what I would expect, at least.

[...]

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