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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 22:31:36
Message-Id: 20150218223115.7fb56f66@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files by lee
1 On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:49:54 +0100, lee wrote:
2
3 > > I wonder if the OP is using systemd and trying to read the journal
4 > > files?
5 >
6 > Nooo, I hate systemd ...
7 >
8 > What good are log files you can't read?
9
10 You can't read syslog-ng log files without some reading software, usually
11 a combination of cat, grep and less. systemd does it all with journalctl.
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13 There are good reasons to not use systemd, this isn't one of them.
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17 Neil Bothwick
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19 Weird enough for government work.

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Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files lee <lee@××××××××.de>