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Hi All, How can view the log files from /var/log? I tried opening it but could not able to read anything?, its all with mixed up of some symbols and ...
  1. 01-25-2008 #1
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    Reading Log Files

    Hi All,

    How can view the log files from /var/log?
    I tried opening it but could not able to read anything?, its all with mixed up of some symbols and not proper.
    Can some one help me on this?
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    Which logfiles? Many are ascii text, and should be readable with the less pager or any text viewer/editor.
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    I believe you need to be root in order to read files in /var/log, try switching to root user before attempting to open them

    try to do as root
    Code:
    cat /var/log/file.log | less
    where file.log is the one you wanna read
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