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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
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.