Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-28 Thread Stroller
On Sat, 27 December 2014, at 1:45 pm, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2014 13:10:17 Helmut Jarausch wrote: I think this was a long standig bug. Version 3.6.2 seems to have fixed this. Ah. Well I'm still on 3.4.8. Mick, if you don't hear anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 28 December 2014 13:32:00 Stroller wrote: On Sat, 27 December 2014, at 1:45 pm, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2014 13:10:17 Helmut Jarausch wrote: I think this was a long standig bug. Version 3.6.2 seems to have fixed this. Ah. Well I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-27 Thread Mick
On Friday 26 Dec 2014 23:33:33 Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, For some time now I've had syslog-ng writing /var/log/messages in a binary format: # file /var/log/messages /var/log/messages: data # grep syslog-ng /var/log/messages Binary file /var/log/messages matches Yet: # head

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/27/2014 10:52:04 AM, Mick wrote: On Friday 26 Dec 2014 23:33:33 Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, For some time now I've had syslog-ng writing /var/log/messages in a binary format: # file /var/log/messages /var/log/messages: data # grep syslog-ng /var/log/messages

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 26 December 2014 23:33:33 I wrote: For some time now I've had syslog-ng writing /var/log/messages in a binary format: [...] Can I use the following method to restore the original text format of /var/log/messages? 1.Boot rescue system and mount main system 2.# cd

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 27 December 2014 13:10:17 Helmut Jarausch wrote: I think this was a long standig bug. Version 3.6.2 seems to have fixed this. Ah. Well I'm still on 3.4.8. Mick, if you don't hear anything from me soonish, it will be safe to remove the binary stuff using the method I mentioned.

[gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, For some time now I've had syslog-ng writing /var/log/messages in a binary format: # file /var/log/messages /var/log/messages: data # grep syslog-ng /var/log/messages Binary file /var/log/messages matches