From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3FFE138A1A for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:02:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6603FE0869; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:02:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 36E4CE0850 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:02:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F93340869 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:02:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.49 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.49 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id lXs5EBrzLxAe for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 853CB340814 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YNnPV-0000kt-5N for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:02:17 +0100 Received: from ppp-94-64-158-31.home.otenet.gr ([94.64.158.31]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:02:17 +0100 Received: from realnc by ppp-94-64-158-31.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:02:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng: how to read the log files Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:02:10 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <87lhjws8ci.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-94-64-158-31.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: <87lhjws8ci.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> X-Archives-Salt: 4c746014-16be-4c10-9e52-b222bf0b3a33 X-Archives-Hash: 967416b13efb7b6afef04f387faac8c4 On 17/02/15 20:26, lee 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. As others said, it's probably a bug and /var/log/messages is actually really a text file. FWIW, I'm on syslog-ng 3.6.2 and it seems to not have this bug.