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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:37:20
Message-Id: CAGfcS_mW5o=YcuzTJiAmtwvw+fT6hjqQDJbjmwB2qwRTKp-Lrw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files by lee
1 On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:26 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> 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 That's news to me. Are you sure you're not looking at wtmp or
10 something like that (which isn't maintained by syslog)?
11
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13 Rich