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

[Mick]

On Tuesday 17 Feb 2015 23:13:08 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 February 2015 22:51:55 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 February 2015 20:41:06 Matti Nykyri wrote:
> > > > On Feb 17, 2015, at 20:26, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > This was discussed earlier on this list... Actually what syslog-ng
> > > produces is plain text. There seemed to be a bug that creates some
> > > binary (i.e. unreadable characters) and that causes less to consider
> > > files to be binary and show them incorrectly.
> >
> > Yes, that was me. I found that something had marked /var/log/messages
> > as a binary file. There's nothing in it that can't be read, no
> > mysterious characters or anything; it's just marked as binary. All
> > you have to do is to move it, then cat it back into place. I did that
> > with no ill effects.
>
> Actually, this is what I did, as I reported here on 26/12:
> > 1.    Boot rescue system and mount main system
> > 2.    # cd /mnt/main/var/log
> > 3.    # mv messages messages.bin
> > 4.    # strings messages.bin > messages
> > 5.    # rm messages.bin
> > 6.    Reboot.

How often do you have to do this?

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Regards,
Mick