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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