From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:09:13 +0200 [thread overview]
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Alexander Kapshuk <
alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
>
>
Just tried 'sed p /var/log/messages', which seems to work as well.
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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
2015-02-17 18:38 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2015-02-17 19:09 ` Alexander Kapshuk [this message]
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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