System Log viewing.

MHenry676 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 125

I've been using Gentoo for several months as my main OS. As many headaches as Gentoo (really just linux in general, some gentoo specific), I can't seem to stop using it. But I'm sure that this is just a phase, and someday I'll know how to fix something without flinching.

But one thing I have yet to find more info on is log viewing. I know it's there. I followed the guide and emerged syslog-ng, but how do I view the system logs, or any other logs, like I could with windows? Of course both GUI and console based viewers are what I would need. Any good log viewers for console and KDE (my one and only window manager)?
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nonotme · Guru Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 356 Location: on.ca

since you mention KDE, have you tried klogview or ksystemlog? as for console viewing, less is usually sufficient for me. any console text editor/viewer will work though, they're just plain text files.
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Admiral LSD · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:04 am Post subject:

Log files are typically stored in /var/log. They're plain text, so any text editor/viewer can be used to read them. I use the tools in Midnight Commander myself as I'm used to it (I'm an nc fanboi from waaaaay back) but nano/vim/emacs/etc will do just as well. Of course, there are a number of GUI log parsers as well but I can't think of any off-hand. I vaguely remember one for GNOME but I couldn't tell you it's name - not that'd be much use to you anyway.
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