[Novalug] Fwd: Re: Trouble-shooting system crash

Derek LaHousse dlahouss@mtu.edu
Sat Aug 23 17:08:57 EDT 2014


Command line tools aren't hoops.  Funny things called Mice that don't
look like mice are hoops.  Do you know how much you have to move to do
some simple thing like search for a key word?
/word
Done.

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Charles R. Head via Novalug
<novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
> *Jon,*
>
> It never ceases to amaze me the hoops you command line gurus jump through to
> do things.  When I Googled and got hits telling me to "cat" and "vi" and
> "more" or "less", I thought they were _*nuts*_!
>
> Then I stumbled on a reference to the "System Log Viewer" which resides in
> my distro's software repository.  It gives me a nice GUI that my feeble mind
> is able to deal with.
>
> *Charlie Head*
>
> ****************************************************
>
> On 8/23/2014 4:38 PM, Jon LaBadie via Novalug wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 04:23:57PM -0400, Charles R. Head via Novalug
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> *Jon,*
>>>
>>> O.K.  I Googled "pager" and found my answer.  However, I still don't know
>>> how to open a log with a pager.  Can you help with that.
>>>
>>> *Charlie Head*
>>
>> By the below quote,
>>
>>>> Most applications log their messages via the syslog facility
>>>> (rsyslogd(8)).
>>>> They are saved in /var/log/messages and can be read with a pager.
>>
>> I meant to imply they were simply text files.  However you look at a
>> text file will work, cat(1), vi(1), more(1), less(1), etc.  If the
>> log has been compressed with gzip (ex. /var/log/messages-20140615.gz)
>> use the "z" variants, zcat(1), zless(1) ...
>>
>> Jon
>>>
>>> **********************************
>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>> Subject:        Re: [Novalug] Trouble-shooting system crash
>>> Date:   Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:17:50 -0400
>>> From:   Charles R. Head <CharlesRHead@Netscape.Net>
>>> Reply-To:       CharlesRHead@Netscape.Net
>>> To:     novalug@firemountain.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Jon,*
>>>
>>> What is the "pager" that you refer to below (to read logs with)?  Where
>>> do I
>>> go to start one?
>>> *
>>> **Charlie Head*
>>>
>>> ****************************************************
>>> On 8/23/2014 4:03 PM, Jon LaBadie via Novalug wrote:
>
>
>
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