From: | Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> | ||
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To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng: how to read the log files | ||
Date: | Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:02:35 | ||
Message-Id: | mc037i$ap$1@ger.gmane.org | ||
In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files by lee |
1 | On 17/02/15 20:26, 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 | As others said, it's probably a bug and /var/log/messages is actually |
10 | really a text file. |
11 | |
12 | FWIW, I'm on syslog-ng 3.6.2 and it seems to not have this bug. |