Re: Reading /VAR/LOG Files????

2006-08-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-06-09 05:27:46, schrieb Leonard Chatagnier: How does one read in human readable terms a log file that is a binary file such a faillog? There are other ^^^ Ehm, -- Why not using faillog? Greetings Michelle Konzack -- Linux-User

Re: Re: Reading /VAR/LOG Files????

2006-06-10 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Þann 2006-06-09, 05:27:46 (-0700) skrifaði Leonard Chatagnier: How does one read in human readable terms a log file that is a binary file such a faillog? There are other binary log files that I would like to check but don't know how. I'm sure debian wouldn't put the file there if it couldn't be

Re: Reading /VAR/LOG Files????

2006-06-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Þann 2006-06-09, 05:27:46 (-0700) skrifaði Leonard Chatagnier: How does one read in human readable terms a log file that is a binary file such a faillog? There are other binary log files that I would like to check but

Re: Re: Reading /VAR/LOG Files????

2006-06-10 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
snip Ron Johnson writes: $ dpkg -S `which faillog` login: /usr/bin/faillog Looks like you gotta keep it... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Hi again Ron. still haven't solved my mplayer issue but will post again as soon as I resolve some of these little issues that have bugged me

Re: Reading /VAR/LOG Files????

2006-06-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leonard Chatagnier wrote: snip Ron Johnson writes: $ dpkg -S `which faillog` login: /usr/bin/faillog Looks like you gotta keep it... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Hi again Ron. still haven't solved my mplayer issue but will post

Re: Re: Reading /VAR/LOG Files????

2006-06-10 Thread Joey Hess
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Thanks for the reply. I did get a 2 line output from running faillog but the /var/log/faillog file size is about 1.5 MBytes. IIRC faillog is a sparse file, so most of those 1.5 megabtyes are probably all zeros that don't actually take up any disk space. -- see shy

Reading /VAR/LOG Files????

2006-06-09 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
How does one read in human readable terms a log file that is a binary file such a faillog? There are other binary log files that I would like to check but don't know how. I'm sure debian wouldn't put the file there if it couldn't be accessed in human readable terms; I'd just like to know how. An

Re: Reading /VAR/LOG Files????

2006-06-09 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-09, 05:27:46 (-0700) skrifaði Leonard Chatagnier: How does one read in human readable terms a log file that is a binary file such a faillog? There are other binary log files that I would like to check but don't know how. I'm sure debian wouldn't put the file there if it couldn't