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

[Jan Sever]

On 02/19/2015 08:02 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 7:26:05 PM lee 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.
>>
>>
>>
>
> You can just pipe the output of strings /var/log/messages to less. You can
use 
> strings(1) for systemd  journal files also.

Yeah and you can check whether it contains any binary data by
diff <(strings /var/log/messages) /var/log/messages

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Jan Sever
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