On Tuesday 17 February 2015 20:41:06 Matti Nykyri wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2015, at 20:26, lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Yes, that was me. I found that something had marked /var/log/messages as a binary file. There's nothing in it that can't be read, no mysterious characters or anything; it's just marked as binary. All you have to do is to move it, then cat it back into place. I did that with no ill effects. -- Rgds Peter.
