On Tuesday 17 February 2015 22:51:55 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2015 20:41:06 Matti Nykyri wrote: > > > On Feb 17, 2015, at 20:26, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > This was discussed earlier on this list... Actually what syslog-ng > > produces is plain text. There seemed to be a bug that creates some > > binary (i.e. unreadable characters) and that causes less to consider > > files to be binary and show them incorrectly. > > Yes, that was me. I found that something had marked /var/log/messages > as a binary file. There's nothing in it that can't be read, no > mysterious characters or anything; it's just marked as binary. All > you have to do is to move it, then cat it back into place. I did that > with no ill effects.
Actually, this is what I did, as I reported here on 26/12: > 1. Boot rescue system and mount main system > 2. # cd /mnt/main/var/log > 3. # mv messages messages.bin > 4. # strings messages.bin > messages > 5. # rm messages.bin > 6. Reboot. -- Rgds Peter.
