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From: lee <lee@yagibdah.de>
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Subject: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:26:05 +0100
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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.


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