On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:38 PM, 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). > > Just tried 'sed p /var/log/messages', which seems to work as well.
