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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng: how to read the log files
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:02:10 +0200
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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.