[plug] /var/log/messages

[Adam Davin]

Thanks matt, however the files are not in a gz format. Some further 
experimentation (I was using mc to view the files) found that the problem 
seemed to lie with MC itself. When viewing the current messages file with 
MC I was presented the file in the usual format, however viewing any of the 
.1,.2, .3 files presented me with a file where all spaces, tabs, and end of 
line characters had been stripped out. However using other editors, gedit, 
pico ... it displayed fine.

Well thanks anyway

Adam Davin

-----Original Message-----
From:	Matt Kemner [SMTP:zombie at wasp.net.au]
Sent:	Thursday, 18 January 2001 12:18 AM
To:	Plug (E-mail)
Subject:	Re: [plug] /var/log/messages

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Adam Davin wrote:

> Question: is there a way to restore these files (messages.1, .2 ... etc ) 
> for easier reading

use "zless" to view the zipped files, zgrep to search through them, or
copy them to a temporary location and run "gunzip *gz" to unzip them all
at once.

 - Matt