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On Tuesday 17 February 2015 20:41:06 Matti Nykyri wrote: |
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> > On Feb 17, 2015, at 20:26, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > how do you read the log files when using syslog-ng? |
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> > The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too |
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> > well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. |
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> This was discussed earlier on this list... Actually what syslog-ng |
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> produces is plain text. There seemed to be a bug that creates some |
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> binary (i.e. unreadable characters) and that causes less to consider |
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> files to be binary and show them incorrectly. |
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Yes, that was me. I found that something had marked /var/log/messages as |
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a binary file. There's nothing in it that can't be read, no mysterious |
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characters or anything; it's just marked as binary. All you have to do |
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is to move it, then cat it back into place. I did that with no ill |
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effects. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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