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

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

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

I don't know. Are we talking magic here?

-- 
Rgds
Peter.