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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files
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Comments: In-reply-to Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>
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Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:26 PM, lee <lee@yagibdah.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons
> > might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.
> >
> >
> If you're talking about /var/log/messages, which is:
> messages: data
>
> I use cat(1).
I wonder if the OP is using systemd and trying to read the journal
files?
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