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

["Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:41 PM, lee <lee@yagibdah.de> wrote:
>
> Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:49:54 +0100, lee wrote:
> >
> >> > I wonder if the OP is using systemd and trying to read the journal
> >> > files?
> >>
> >> Nooo, I hate systemd ...
> >>
> >> What good are log files you can't read?
> >
> > You can't read syslog-ng log files without some reading software,
usually
> > a combination of cat, grep and less. systemd does it all with
journalctl.
> >
> > There are good reasons to not use systemd, this isn't one of them.
>
> To me it is one of the good reasons, and an important one.  Plain text
> can usually always be read without further ado, be it from rescue
> systems you booted or with software available on different operating
> systems.  It can be also be processed with scripts and sent as email.
> You can probably even read it on your cell phone.  You can still read
> log files that were created 20 years ago when they are plain text.
>
> Can you do all that with the binary files created by systemd?

Yes, you can.

> I can't even read them on a working system.

If that's true (which I highly doubt, more probably you don't know how to
read them), then it's a bug and should be reported and fixed.

Regards.
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Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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