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10.5: Monitor Time Machine activity via GeekTool
Authored by: dbs on Dec 21, '07 10:15:35AM

In 10.5 you should not use the system.log file for accessing logged events. Instead use the "syslog" program to directly query for new events. Check out "man syslog" to see how to do it. (The system.log file is apparently generated by syslog for backwards compatibility only.)



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10.5: Monitor Time Machine activity via GeekTool
Authored by: rjbailey on Dec 21, '07 10:53:43AM

"man syslog" seems to indicate that syslog is a C routine. Not much help here.



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10.5: Monitor Time Machine activity via GeekTool
Authored by: CarlRJ on Mar 18, '08 12:04:19PM
syslog is in both section 1 (commands) and 3 (libraries) of the manual. To override the man's guess of which you wanted to see (i.e. get to the page for the syslog command), use: man 1 syslog

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10.5: Monitor Time Machine activity via GeekTool
Authored by: freddiepingpong on Jan 02, '08 04:31:45PM

Syslog (full name: Apple System Log Utility) works fine for me. I'm still trying to figure out the usage, but it looks quite powerful.



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