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Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

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Thanks. The error with the p instead of q was stupid and just the tiredness
I felt
at the time, I am  90 after all. I was using q when getting out of the log
file. Thanks
for the other advice.

I am greatly confused about my next attempt. I am trying to install my
network
printer. an Epson XP 2100, it`s a nightmare. I`ll likely be back asking for
help
with this.

Regards.
Anthony John.


On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 at 03:48, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri 25 Sep 2020 at 11:19:40 (+0100), anthony gennard wrote:
> > My email has gone haywire and I cannot reply to two of the messages.
> > Fortunately, I had made copies of them.
> > Greg Wooledge said to me
> > >"How are you `looking at ` the file?
> > >I would suggest using less.
> >
> > >You get out of less by pressing p
>
> No, q, not p. You get out of less with q.
> But Ctrl-C can be useful if you do something like search for
> a string in a huge file and want to interrupt it because it's
> taking too long.
>
> > Greg, I was using less.
> > What I did was:- Open  a terminal by ctrl + alt + F1
> > `cd  /var/log` then `ls` and I could see boot.log amongst the list of
> files
> > then I did `sudo less boot.log` and got the list of start ups.
> > At this point I was stuck and asked the list for help.
> > I was such a fool because I did not look up the man page for less.
> > I went through the process and pressed p and low and behold and was back
> to
> > the `root@??? /var/log`.
> > Thank you.
> > Now I have to try and print a copy of the first 100 or so lines which
> > will give me the last boot up details.
>
> If you make yourself a member of the adm group, you can read your logs
> as a normal user. You'd need to type into any terminal
>
> $ sudo addgroup myloginname adm
>
> replacing myloginname as appropriate, but you will need to login again
> before the addgroup command will have any effect.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>

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Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply anthony gennard <agennae@gmail.com> - 2020-09-25 12:20 +0200
  Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-26 04:50 +0200
    Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply anthony gennard <agennae@gmail.com> - 2020-09-26 13:20 +0200
    Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2020-09-28 07:30 +0200
      Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-28 13:50 +0200
        Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2020-09-28 14:50 +0200
          Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-28 16:20 +0200
          Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-28 16:40 +0200

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