cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > 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?
Nooo, I hate systemd ... What good are log files you can't read? If syslog-ng would actually use some binary format, I'd have switched to something else. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.
