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).