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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.


  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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