On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Robert Munro <ramu...@speakeasy.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:02:01 -0700 Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> >> Unity offers a log file viewer. It comes up with a window with a >> vertical size larger than my screen. The context menu has a resize >> option, but it does not provide access to the bottom of the window. >> Google has not helped. Ideas? > > Does the Unity log file viewer offer more features than simply opening > a terminal and using the tail or less command? > > tail -f /var/log/messages # is a rolling real-time display of the log. > > less /var/log/messages # lets you scroll the whole system messages log. > > I don't know whether Ubuntu uses systemd (though I suspect it > doesn't), but systemd has added log journaling and a new command, > journalctl. > > HTH, > Robert
It appears to open a special window with a left pane showing all the log files (34 of them!). It presents all the contents of the selected log file in a scrollable window. The man page for gnome-system-log refers to /etc/syslog.conf and a missing man page for syslog.conf. Here is the .conf file: # /etc/syslog.conf Configuration file for syslogd. # # For more information see syslog.conf(5) # manpage. # # First some standard logfiles. Log by facility. # auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog #cron.* /var/log/cron.log daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log kern.* -/var/log/kern.log lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log mail.* -/var/log/mail.log user.* -/var/log/user.log # # Logging for the mail system. Split it up so that # it is easy to write scripts to parse these files. # mail.info -/var/log/mail.info mail.warning -/var/log/mail.warn mail.err /var/log/mail.err # Logging for INN news system # news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit news.err /var/log/news/news.err news.notice -/var/log/news/news.notice # # Some `catch-all' logfiles. # *.=debug;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ news.none;mail.none -/var/log/debug *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warning;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ cron,daemon.none;\ mail,news.none -/var/log/messages # # Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in. # *.emerg * # # I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual # console I usually leave idle. # #daemon,mail.*;\ # news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\ # *.=debug;*.=info;\ # *.=notice;*.=warning /dev/tty8 # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it, # you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option: # # $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] # # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably # busy site.. # daemon.*;mail.*;\ news.err;\ *.=debug;*.=info;\ *.=notice;*.=warning |/dev/xconsole -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug