On 22/11/17 12:32, KatolaZ wrote:
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 12:24:28PM +0100, John Hughes wrote:
I was amazed that KatolaZ couldn't imagine any way of reading text from a
file without a special application, doesn't he have strings(1) on his
"forensic system"?
As for journalctl, you forget to mention that it is not available as a
separate component from systemd.
"Not available"? Attached to systemd with epoxy? Or an independent
executable that could easily be installed on a forensic system the good
old fashioned way. Or, if you prefer, just install the systemd package
and use some other init system:
I had never thhougt that I would have been suggested to look at logs
by grepping the results of "strings" on a binary file. But I
understand that this is considered "amazing technological progress" in
some camps.
Whatever gets the job done. Personally I'd just install the application
that knows how to read the file, but if I was unable to do that for some
reason or other I'd use one of the many useful tools Unix like systems
come with rather than claiming the job was impossible.
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