On Mon 03 Dec 2018 at 12:01:51 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, December 03, 2018 10:21:44 AM Brian wrote: > > On Mon 03 Dec 2018 at 14:57:53 +0000, Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-12-03, rhkra...@gmail.com <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Monday, December 03, 2018 06:02:05 AM Steve Kemp wrote: > > > >> > Is there anywhere else I should look? > > > >> > > > > >> Take a look at /var/log/dpkg.log* too. > > > > > > > > (I am not the OP.) Is there a special tool to look at it -- I tried > > > > less and saw nothing, then cat which seemed to show binary gibberish > > > > (nothing I could read). > > > > > > The logs are gzipped periodically (gibberish for less).
Take a look at man lesspipe or man lessfile. Evaluating this command sets up a scheme for preprocessing the input to less, making its direct use possible. > > But not for zless. > > Hmm, I might have found / committed a [p]ebkac, it now seems that, for > example: > > cat /var/log/dpkg.log.* | less > > ... works fine. Not sure what I did wrong earlier. Filenames of rotated and compressed logfiles look very like compressed manpages. I think there are/have been circumstances where confusion can lead to the former being processed as if the latter, amongst other possibilities. > (And they apparently are not gzipped (on my Wheezy system). Check the contents of /etc/logrotate.d/dpkg perhaps. Cheers, David.