From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:37:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_mW5o=YcuzTJiAmtwvw+fT6hjqQDJbjmwB2qwRTKp-Lrw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhjws8ci.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de>
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:26 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.
That's news to me. Are you sure you're not looking at wtmp or
something like that (which isn't maintained by syslog)?
--
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-17 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-17 18:26 [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files lee
2015-02-17 18:37 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2015-02-17 18:38 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2015-02-17 19:09 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2015-02-17 19:29 ` covici
2015-02-17 19:45 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2015-02-17 22:31 ` Marc Joliet
2015-02-18 19:01 ` systemd journal location (was: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files) Marc Joliet
2015-02-18 18:22 ` [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files gottlieb
2015-02-18 18:53 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2015-02-18 22:43 ` gottlieb
2015-02-18 20:49 ` lee
2015-02-18 22:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-02-22 23:41 ` lee
2015-02-23 0:19 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2015-05-04 5:57 ` lee
2015-05-04 14:56 ` Tom H
2015-05-09 15:01 ` lee
2015-05-09 16:00 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-02-23 0:37 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-04 6:09 ` lee
2015-02-23 8:15 ` Marc Joliet
2015-02-23 8:41 ` covici
2015-02-23 16:18 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2015-02-23 17:49 ` covici
2015-02-23 18:10 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2015-02-23 19:19 ` Marc Joliet
2015-02-23 19:31 ` covici
2015-02-23 19:35 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2015-02-23 20:07 ` covici
2015-02-23 23:18 ` covici
2015-02-23 23:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-02-24 0:50 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-02-24 7:21 ` Marc Joliet
2015-02-24 9:57 ` Matti Nykyri
2015-02-23 19:26 ` covici
2015-05-04 6:14 ` lee
2015-05-04 11:24 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-09 15:08 ` lee
2015-05-09 18:07 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-10 17:51 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2015-02-17 18:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Matti Nykyri
2015-02-17 22:51 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-02-17 23:13 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-02-17 23:23 ` Jan Sever
2015-02-17 23:54 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-02-18 7:38 ` Mick
2015-02-18 9:38 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-02-17 23:52 ` Rich Freeman
2015-02-17 23:55 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-02-17 19:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2015-02-17 19:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-17 19:17 ` lee
2015-02-17 22:01 ` Mick
2015-02-18 13:29 ` Stroller
2015-02-18 20:40 ` lee
2015-02-18 21:33 ` Stroller
2015-02-22 23:48 ` lee
2015-02-23 0:21 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2015-02-23 2:57 ` Dale
2015-02-23 3:06 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-02-23 4:28 ` Dale
2015-02-23 10:13 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-02-24 19:30 ` Stroller
2015-02-19 19:02 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-02-19 19:11 ` Jan Sever
2015-02-23 0:03 ` lee
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