From: Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 06:52:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54D89F96.3000503@alectenharmsel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201502091150.01015.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On 02/09/2015 06:49 AM, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 09 Feb 2015 11:23:15 Rich Freeman wrote:
>> You don't have to export them from anything unless you need their
>> content in a text file. If you just run "journalctl" that is the
>> equivalent of typing cat /var/log/messages. If you do want to parse
>> them with an external tool then you get your choice of several text
>> formats and json.
> The thing is I never use cat. I invariably use less, rview, or grep, to
> browse or search the log files.
>
> How will this work with journalctl, will I have to export them first into a
> different format?
>
You can run `journalctl | grep whatever`. I don't know what rview is,
but as long as whatever you're using supports pipes you should be fine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-09 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-09 9:48 [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please! Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-09 10:06 ` Matthias Hanft
2015-02-09 10:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-02-09 11:23 ` Rich Freeman
2015-02-09 11:49 ` Mick
2015-02-09 11:52 ` Alec Ten Harmsel [this message]
2015-02-09 13:02 ` Rich Freeman
2015-02-09 13:43 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2015-02-09 14:26 ` covici
2015-02-09 15:02 ` Rich Freeman
2015-02-09 15:09 ` covici
2015-02-09 15:10 ` [gentoo-user] alexandra vargas
2015-02-09 11:23 ` [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please! Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-09 11:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-02-09 10:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-02-09 11:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-09 13:21 ` Matthias Hanft
2015-02-09 11:29 ` Mick
2015-02-09 11:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-02-09 11:13 ` Adam Carter
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