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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files
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On Wednesday 18 February 2015 07:38:46 Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 Feb 2015 23:13:08 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > 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?

Just the once. Whatever bug caused it seems to have been fixed.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.