1DQTOOL(1) The dqtool tool manual page DQTOOL(1)
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6 dqtool - Display the contents of a disk-buffer file created with
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9 dqtool [command] [options]
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12 NOTE: The dqtool application is distributed with the system logging
13 application, and is usually part of the syslog-ng package. The latest
14 version of the syslog-ng application is available at the official
15 syslog-ng website[1].
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17 This manual page is only an abstract, for the complete documentation of
18 syslog-ng, see The Administrator Guide[2].
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20 The dqtool application is a utility that can be used to display and
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26 Use the cat command to display the log messages stored in the
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56 Disk-buffer state loaded; filename='../var/syslog-ng-00000.qf', qout_length='65', qbacklog_length='0', qoverflow_length='9205', qdisk_length='0'
57 Mar 3 10:52:05 tristram localprg[1234]: seq: 0000011630, runid: 1267609923, stamp: 2010-03-03T10:52:05 PADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADD
58 Mar 3 10:52:05 tristram localprg[1234]: seq: 0000011631, runid: 1267609923, stamp: 2010-03-03T10:52:05 PADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADDPADD
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72 If you experience any problems or need help with syslog-ng, visit
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75 For news and notifications about of syslog-ng, visit the syslog-ng
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79 This manual page was written by the Balabit Documentation Team
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84 1. official syslog-ng website
85 https://www.balabit.com/log-management
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87 2. The Administrator Guide
88 https://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/
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90 3. The 3.27 Administrator Guide
91 https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/index.html
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93 4. syslog-ng mailing list
94 https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng
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97 https://syslog-ng.org/blogs/
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