Am Tue, 17 Feb 2015 23:31:26 +0100 schrieb Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de>:
> Am Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:45:38 -0600 > schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com>: > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:29 PM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > > > > > Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:26 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons > > > > > might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If you're talking about /var/log/messages, which is: > > > > messages: data > > > > > > > > I use cat(1). > > > > > > I wonder if the OP is using systemd and trying to read the journal > > > files? > > > > Those live under /var/lib/journal (which you need to create; Gentoo doesn't > > do it by default last time I saw) > [...] > > It did on my laptop after I migrated it to systemd over the weekend (on a > whim, > no less -- apparently I'm adventurous?). Or, to be more precise, I didn't have > to create the directory myself. And wouldn't it be created at run-time, > anyway? > That's what I would expect, at least. Dammit, I *wanted* to mention that I didn't have my laptop there to look, and now I regret not doing it, because I was *actually* thinking of /var/log/journal/ (which I still didn't create by hand, BTW). I mean, it still contains journal files, and systemd-journald(8) says its the default *persistent* journal location. However, it is structured differently than what you showed, namely: % tree /var/log/journal/ /var/log/journal/ ├── b3a495d35e890b80816684a4521fc1cc │ ├── system.journal │ └── user-1000.journal └── remote So it creates a directory named after the machine ID, which contains a system journal and one journal per user. And if it receives logs from remote machines, those go into the remote folder. Just, uh, just so you know... -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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