On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 9:21 AM, John Cherouvim <[email protected]> wrote: > In /var/log/varnish/ I have some old varnish logs, produced by varnishlog > which, due to logrotated, are now in gz format: > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 varnishlog varnish 143068514 Aug 10 23:59 >> varnish.log.2017-08-10.gz >> -rw-r--r-- 1 varnishlog varnish 156373518 Aug 11 23:59 >> varnish.log.2017-08-11.gz >> -rw-r--r-- 1 varnishlog varnish 134255825 Aug 12 23:59 >> varnish.log.2017-08-12.gz >> -rw-r--r-- 1 varnishlog varnish 156992529 Aug 13 23:59 >> varnish.log.2017-08-13.gz >> -rw-r--r-- 1 varnishlog varnish 176751837 Aug 14 23:59 >> varnish.log.2017-08-14.gz >> -rw-r--r-- 1 varnishlog varnish 155948012 Aug 16 00:01 >> varnish.log.2017-08-15.gz >> -rw-r--r-- 1 varnishlog varnish 169977134 Aug 17 00:01 >> varnish.log.2017-08-16.gz > > I've extracted those in another location and tried to view them via > head/more but they look binary. > > So I then tried opening them with varnishlog using either of the following > parameters: > >> [-N filename] VSM filename >> [-r filename] Binary file input > > But that didn't work giving me: > >> Can't open log - retrying for 5 seconds > > and: > >> Can't open log file (Not a VSL file: > > Any idea on how can I inspect those historical logs from varnish?
What is the output of `file some_extracted_file`? They are probably ascii dump of the logs if varnishlog is complaining. Dridi _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
