Switching

Hi all,

There is a syslog conf. on the qfx and its log messages files are:

> file list /var/log/mes*
/var/log/messages
/var/log/messages.0.gz
/var/log/messages.1.gz
/var/log/messages.2.gz
/var/log/messages.3.gz
/var/log/messages.4.gz
/var/log/messages.5.gz
/var/log/messages.6.gz
/var/log/messages.7.gz
/var/log/messages.8.gz
/var/log/messages.9.gz

My question is how can be showed all of numbered log message files on the screen at a time rather than doing >show log messages.X.gz for each log message files?

Thx

A

Hi 

I am not sure if we can do this in the cli. 

However from the shell we should be able to display all the messages:

>start shell

%cd /var/log

%zcat messages*

However this zcat will fail for the first message file which is not zipped (all other archived files are zipped).

Hope this helps

Hi Arix, 

Greetings, 

As per my understanding, there is no CLI command to perform the operation.

But you can achieve the same from the shell for all files using: 

> start shell
% cd /var/log
% zcat -f messages*

Please mark "Accept as solution" if this answers your query. 

Kudos are appreciated too! 

Regards, 
Sharat Ainapur

Hello Arix,

The following CLI command will print contents of messages.* files in chronological order:

start shell command "ls -tr /var/log/messages* | xargs zcat -f"

Best regards,

Sergii

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Hi

As you know there is a count argument in the Junos CLI... Is there a way to use some thing -count in the shell following command. I tried the following didn't work.

>start shell command "ls -tr /var/log/messages* | xargs zcat -f | grep snmpd | count"

count: Command not found.
xargs: zcat: terminated with signal 13; aborting

Arix, 

Use the below command to count :

start shell command "ls -tr /var/log/messages* | xargs zcat -f | grep snmpd | wc -l"

Please mark "Accept as solution" if this answers your query. 

Kudos are appreciated too! 

Regards, 

Sharat Ainapur

Hi Arix, 

Thanks for the kudos.

Did you get a chance to verify this on your device ? Just wanted to check if this worked for you.

Are there any other questions pertaining to this topic that you need answers for ?

On the Lab Device, I got the output something like below: 

root@lab> start shell command "ls -tr /var/log/messages* | xargs zcat -f | grep snmpd | wc -l" 
124

Also, could you please mark this as "Accepted solution" if this answered your query. 

Regards, 

Sharat

Hi Arix, 

Greetings, 

Request you to mark the solution for the queries you post as accepted if it answered your query/queries.

This would enable others to find the right solution for the same/similar queries on the forum.

Mark "Accept as solution" if my post answered your query. 

Regards, 

Sharat Ainapur