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

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Alexander Kapshuk <
alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:26 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons
>> might swallow us.  Finally, this fear has become reasonable.
>>
>>
> If you're talking about /var/log/messages, which is:
> messages: data
>
> I use cat(1).
>
>
Just tried 'sed p /var/log/messages', which seems to work as well.