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| From: | Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files | ||
| Date: | Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:04:27 | ||
| Message-Id: | 2735744.Vs3r9ZmJIO@acer | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files by lee |
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| 1 | On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 7:26:05 PM lee wrote: |
| 2 | > Hi, |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > how do you read the log files when using syslog-ng? |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | > The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too |
| 7 | > well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. |
| 8 | > |
| 9 | > |
| 10 | > |
| 11 | |
| 12 | You can just pipe the output of strings /var/log/messages to less. You can use |
| 13 | strings(1) for systemd journal files also. |
| 14 | |
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| 16 | Fernando Rodriguez |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files | Jan Sever <n32@×××××.cz> |