Reading contents of binary log files in /var/log

[Daniel Staal]

--As of April 25, 2008 2:42:05 AM +0530, Siju George is alleged to have 
said:

>
> I find that the following files in /var/log namely
>
> failedlogin
> lastlog
> pflog
> wtmp
>
> does not give sensible output using "cat"
>
> Could someone please tell me how to get meaningful data out of these log
> files?

--As for the rest, it is mine.

pflog can be read by 'tcpdump', check the man pages for details.  (It is in 
standard tcpdump format.)

The other three files are used by the 'last' command, to generate the 
statistics it shows.

Daniel T. Staal

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