On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 7:26:05 PM lee 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. > > >
You can just pipe the output of strings /var/log/messages to less. You can use strings(1) for systemd journal files also. -- Fernando Rodriguez
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