Viewing logs when they're scrambled looking..
Instead of viewing logs via SSH / PUTTY.
I like to download them first to my PC..and view em there..so that I dont miss any lines or anything. Some of the logs show up as normal text.. others looks all scrambled & i'm guessing encrypted ? How do I find a good log viewer, to decrypt the scrambled looking ones ? I've just been using WordPad for the most part. This is a super noobish question i'm sure. |
1. What are the full names of the log files you have downloaded?
2. Don't use wordpad. Apart from using different line endings to *nixes, it will 'helpfully' try to deciper character combinations for formatting, resulting in a mess of an output ;-) Try the excellent free 'notepad++' but set it to 'unix' under the preferences. I suspect you may be looking at gzipped log files (eg /var/log/mail.info.1.gz etc) and this in combination with wordpad is giving you the impression of encrypted output. |
tail -n 500 /var/log/yourlogfile | less in PuTTY and you won't miss anything ;)
tail --help for details. |
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My version of Putty doesn't scroll up though..whatever is on the screen, thats it. Is there a secret way to scroll up ? I believe I have version 0.57 Putty. |
Use "less" as a pager. And there are certain logs like wtemp,
lastlog, faillog that have binary content - not because they're encrypted, but because they're meant to be used by a program like "last" that will show their contents in human readable form. Cheers, Tink |
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How can I view that ? I running Plesk as well. 9.2.3 I guess I need to use last to view lastlog ? how is it possible. much appreciated. |
I have no idea how plesk interacts with the system - sorry;
never seen or used it. |
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ls -s ? |
Or change the number of 'lines of scrollback' in Putty (hint: Catagory > Window > Control Of Scrollback in Window)
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But looking at the man-pages should have told you that? |
According to that man page the cmd is lastlog ...
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