On Monday, December 03, 2018 10:21:44 AM Brian wrote:
> On Mon 03 Dec 2018 at 14:57:53 +0000, Curt wrote:
> > On 2018-12-03, rhkramer@gmail.com <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Monday, December 03, 2018 06:02:05 AM Steve Kemp wrote:
> > >> > Is there anywhere else I should look?
> > >> >
> > >> Take a look at /var/log/dpkg.log* too.
> > >
> > > (I am not the OP.) Is there a special tool to look at it -- I tried
> > > less and saw nothing, then cat which seemed to show binary gibberish
> > > (nothing I could read).
> >
> > The logs are gzipped periodically (gibberish for less).
>
> But not for zless.
Hmm, I might have found / committed a [p]ebkac, it now seems that, for
example:
cat /var/log/dpkg.log.* | less
... works fine. Not sure what I did wrong earlier. (And they apparently are
not gzipped (on my Wheezy system).