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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:34:11
Message-Id: 4CEB3EFC-2048-4BD4-8BEC-E65C07D21045@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files by lee
1 On Wed, 18 February 2015, at 8:40 pm, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
2 >>>
3 >>> The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too
4 >>> well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them.
5 >>
6 >> I believe this may be bug 406623.
7 >>
8 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406623
9 >
10 > That's almost three years old and should apparently be fixed?
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12 It's only been closed in the last few weeks.
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14 See for example, comment 36, November last year (i.e. 3 or 4 months old), "This isn't resolved unless commit f4ae768 is backported or >=3.5.6 is stabilised."
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16 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406623#c36
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18 Since you haven't told us what version of syslog-ng you're running, I think it's reasonable to suspect you've not updated it recently.
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20 Of course the characters could be left in your logfile from months ago, if you've not been rotating logs.
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22 If it's not that bug, though, you should prolly file a new one.
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24 Stroller.

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