Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files
Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:38:33
Message-Id:	`2790041.EmfZA77q7J@wstn`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files by Mick

1	On Wednesday 18 February 2015 07:38:46 Mick wrote:
2	> On Tuesday 17 Feb 2015 23:13:08 Peter Humphrey wrote:
3	> > Actually, this is what I did, as I reported here on 26/12:
4	> > > 1. Boot rescue system and mount main system
5	> > > 2. # cd /mnt/main/var/log
6	> > > 3. # mv messages messages.bin
7	> > > 4. # strings messages.bin > messages
8	> > > 5. # rm messages.bin
9	> > > 6. Reboot.
10	>
11	> How often do you have to do this?
12
13	Just the once. Whatever bug caused it seems to have been fixed.
14
15	--
16	Rgds
17	Peter.