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On Tuesday 17 February 2015 18:52:07 Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Peter Humphrey |
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<peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > Yes, that was me. I found that something had marked |
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> > /var/log/messages as a binary file. There's nothing in it that |
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> > can't be read, no mysterious characters or anything; it's just |
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> > marked as binary. All you have to do is to move it, then cat it |
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> > back into place. I did that with no ill effects. |
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> Uh, of what binary "mark" are you speaking? Seems likely that however |
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> you processed the file stripped it of whatever was causing less to |
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> consider it as binary. I don't think cat alone would do anything to |
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> the file, but I'm not certain of that. |
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I don't know. Are we talking magic here? |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |