Thanks very much; it will take me some time to understand your advice. I will revert as soon as I can.
Am Donnerstag, 24. September 2020, 15:45:47 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge:
I believe, the op wants to look it as easy as possible. So I suggest kwrite
(if he has plasma5 aka KDE installed).
You must got the correct rights. Either you start plasma as root, then you can
just start kwrite and open the log file. or, ifr you start plasma as normal
user, do this:
Start a konsole (like xterm, konsole, uxterm)
then type in "su -p" (without quotes) and enter the password of root.
and last start "kwrite" in this konsole
Now you can open your logfile.
If you are using another window-manager like GNOME, LXDE, Enligtenment
whatever, it might got another graphical editor.
Note: Every graphical application can be started with higher rights from the
konsole (or terminal, how others may call it), by getting higher rights with
su -p. (the -p stands for "preserve actual environment).
Good luck
Hans
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 09:59:57AM +0100, anthony gennard wrote:
> > I am looking at the contents of my boot log file; when trying to get out
> > of
> > the very long file I thought Ctrl + c should do it - it does not and I
> > cannot
> > find any way. I wanted to try tail and head so see how they do. Can anyone
> > please help me.
>
> How are you "looking at" the file? I would suggest using less.
>
> You get out of less by pressing q.