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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 07:38:46 +0000
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On Tuesday 17 Feb 2015 23:13:08 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 February 2015 22:51:55 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 February 2015 20:41:06 Matti Nykyri wrote:
> > > > On Feb 17, 2015, at 20:26, lee <lee@yagibdah.de> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >=20
> > > This was discussed earlier on this list... Actually what syslog-ng
> > > produces is plain text. There seemed to be a bug that creates some
> > > binary (i.e. unreadable characters) and that causes less to consider
> > > files to be binary and show them incorrectly.
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> Actually, this is what I did, as I reported here on 26/12:
> > 1. Boot rescue system and mount main system
> > 2. # cd /mnt/main/var/log
> > 3. # mv messages messages.bin
> > 4. # strings messages.bin > messages
> > 5. # rm messages.bin
> > 6. Reboot.
How often do you have to do this?
=2D-=20
Regards,
Mick
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