Stephan Seitz schrieb: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:43:42PM +0100, bajongo wrote: >> I dunno what to do to read /var/log/messages. In Konqueror it tells me >> that I don't have sufficient authorization to read it. In bash as root I >> don't know how to open it. > > Okay. /var/log/messages is a simply text file, so you can do: > tail -n 20 /var/log/messages > This will display the last 20 lines > > or > > cat /var/log/messages > This will dump the whole file at your screen and you have a lot to > scroll. > > or > > less /var/log/messages > This will open the file in the program less which is a so called > pager. You can use the arrow keys to navigate, G will jump to the end > of the file, g to the beginning, q will exit the program. > > The program dmesg will work as normal user and will print the last > 16kb of kernel messages. For further information see the manual pages > of these programs (man tail, man cat, man less, or man dmesg). > > Shade and sweet water! > > Stephan > > PS: It seems your system uses a German locale setting, so most > messages are not in a language suitable for an international list. If > you write a „env LANG=C” before the program you want to use, the > messages will be in English (e.g. „env LANG=C ls –help” will print the > English help of ls). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user >
Thanx for all the help, stephan. Got some stuff to read! :-) FRitz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
