[ZendTo] Formatting of System Logs page is off

[Marlon Deerr]

Thanks Jules.

You make perfect sense and your suggestion to use the Shift+ mouse scroll wheel actually addresses my concern. So much easier than having to manually drag the scroll bar across.  I’ll use  your suggested method moving forward.

Thanks,
Marlon

From: ZendTo [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] On Behalf Of Jules via ZendTo
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 4:48 AM
To: Marlon Deerr via ZendTo <zendto at zend.to>
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Subject: Re: [ZendTo] Formatting of System Logs page is off

Marlon,

I did it this way on purpose. It is far easier and faster to read logs when the date and time (and other details like that) are the only thing at the left-hand side. One of the first things I do in a Terminal window when searching logs by eye is to make the window wide enough to minimise line-wrapping, as that really slows me down. The "System Log" page is definitely designed for "function" and not for "form".

You can scroll horizontally with your mouse in most OS-es by holding down the Shift key while scrolling the mouse wheel.

To make horizontal scrolling even easier and quicker, get a mouse with a horizontal scroll control. I use the Logitech MX Master series, but I'm sure there are others around that are much cheaper.

If your logs are of any size, the "System Log" view from within ZendTo will be too restrictive anyway as it only shows 1000 lines. At which point you want to read the original log file anyway, which is stored at
    /var/log/zendto/zendto.log
at which point you can use whatever tools you like to view and search it.

Cheers,
Jules.

P.S. In a former life, I was an email Postmaster. Mail logs tend to run to multiple millions of lines per day. So when searching a vague time period for something when you're not sure exactly what you're looking for, you learn ways of scanning logs by eye *very* quickly. Log lines word-wrapping in a window is a sure way to slow yourself down.
On Tue 23/02/21 17:28, Marlon Deerr via ZendTo wrote:
Hello,

I am logged into my ZendTo setup as an administrator. When I click on the (red) “System Log”, button to view logs, I am able to see the logs but the formatting of that page is off.  It’s almost as if there are no carriage returns at the end of lines and it just runs on to the far right. I have to scroll over to see everything.

Is there no way to keep the formatting within the visible browser windows, or better yet, between the white background area on that page?

Thanks,
Marlon



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