> On Feb 17, 2015, at 20:26, 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.
This was discussed earlier on this list... Actually what syslog-ng produces is plain text. There seemed to be a bug that creates some binary (i.e. unreadable characters) and that causes less to consider files to be binary and show them incorrectly. To work around you can use -r flag with less, or replace/remove unreadable chars from log, or delete the log file. -- -Matti
