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. [...] -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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