Log not readable after rotation by daemontools

Question

I have a log, which looks perfectly fine. However, after the log rotation by daemontools, it is no longer human readable.

What could be the problem?

Could be compressed by logrotate. – Gerald Schneider Apr 24 '14 at 14:00 — Gerald Schneider, Apr 24 '14 at 14:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 24 '14 at 14:10

My spidey-sense tingles and tells me you are trying to comb through a rotated log file with more or cat. Better to use zless, zcat, zgrep or similar. Or, if the daemontools does compress the files with bzip, then bzless, bzcat, bzgrep ...

If in doubt, you can do file /path/to/rotated/log and check out the output.

Log not readable after rotation by daemontools

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