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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Uh, of what binary "mark" are you speaking?  Seems likely that however
you processed the file stripped it of whatever was causing less to
consider it as binary.  I don't think cat alone would do anything to
the file, but I'm not certain of that.

-- 
Rich