Thanks very much; it will take me some time to understand your advice. I will revert as soon as I can.
On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 15:03, Hans <hans.ullr...@loop.de> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 24. September 2020, 15:45:47 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge: > I believe, the op wants to look it as easy as possible. So I suggest > kwrite > (if he has plasma5 aka KDE installed). > > You must got the correct rights. Either you start plasma as root, then you > can > just start kwrite and open the log file. or, ifr you start plasma as > normal > user, do this: > > > Start a konsole (like xterm, konsole, uxterm) > > then type in "su -p" (without quotes) and enter the password of root. > > and last start "kwrite" in this konsole > > Now you can open your logfile. > > If you are using another window-manager like GNOME, LXDE, Enligtenment > whatever, it might got another graphical editor. > > Note: Every graphical application can be started with higher rights from > the > konsole (or terminal, how others may call it), by getting higher rights > with > su -p. (the -p stands for "preserve actual environment). > > Good luck > > Hans > > > > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 09:59:57AM +0100, anthony gennard wrote: > > > I am looking at the contents of my boot log file; when trying to get > out > > > of > > > the very long file I thought Ctrl + c should do it - it does not and I > > > cannot > > > find any way. I wanted to try tail and head so see how they do. Can > anyone > > > please help me. > > > > How are you "looking at" the file? I would suggest using less. > > > > You get out of less by pressing q. > > > > >
