On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 02:42:05AM +0530, Siju George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I find that the following files in /var/log namely
>
> failedlogin
> lastlog
> pflog
> wtmp
>
> does not give sensible output using "cat"
>
> Could someone please tell me how to get meaningful data out of these log
> files?
These are binary files. I'm going to recommend you use the man pages for
each. Different programs are used to read the data, for different
purposes. e.g.:
man -k pflog
That should get you started.
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