On Tuesday 17 February 2015 18:52:07 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > 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. > > Uh, of what binary "mark" are you speaking? Seems likely that however > you processed the file stripped it of whatever was causing less to > consider it as binary. I don't think cat alone would do anything to > the file, but I'm not certain of that.
I don't know. Are we talking magic here? -- Rgds Peter.
