Stephan Seitz schrieb:> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:43:42PM +0100, bajongo wrote:>> I dunno what to do to read /var/log/messages. In Konqueror it tells me>> that I don't have sufficient authorization to read it. In bash as root I>> don't know how to open it.>> Okay. /var/log/messages is a simply text file, so you can do:> tail -n 20 /var/log/messages> This will display the last 20 lines>> or>> cat /var/log/messages> This will dump the whole file at your screen and you have a lot to> scroll.>> or>> less /var/log/messages> This will open the file in the program less which is a so called> pager. You can use the arrow keys to navigate, G will jump to the end> of the file, g to the beginning, q will exit the program.>> The program dmesg will work as normal user and will print the last> 16kb of kernel messages. For further information see the manual pages> of these programs (man tail, man cat, man less, or man dmesg).>> Shade and sweet water!>> Stephan>> PS: It seems your system uses a German locale setting, so most> messages are not in a language suitable for an international list. If> you write a „env LANG=C” before the program you want to use, the> messages will be in English (e.g. „env LANG=C ls –help” will print the> English help of ls).>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV> ------------------------------------------------------------------------>> _______________________________________________> Alsa-user mailing list> Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user> Thanx for all the help, stephan. Got some stuff to read! :-) FRitz -------------------------------------------------------------------------Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of ITJoin SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share youropinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cashhttp://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV_______________________________________________Alsa-user mailing listAlsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
