YaST Log Viewer

Select the y2log file to display

Local File

Remote File

ℹ️ Notes

Experimental Project

⚠️ This is still a proof of concept project for experiments. That just means there might be bugs...

Supported Files

You can load the log file in several formats:

  • Plain text format (from /var/log/YaST2/y2log )
  • Gzip compressed file (*.gz, like y2log-1.gz )
  • XZ compressed file (*.xz, currently not created by YaST, you have to compress the file manually)
  • Bzip2 compressed file (*.bz2, currently not created by YaST, you have to compress the file manually)
  • Tarball (*.tar.gz, *.tar.bz2 or *.tar.xz, created by the save_y2logs script, currently only the YaST2/y2log file is displayed)

Remote Files

Downloading remote files works only from the servers which allow cross-origin resource sharing (CORS), this is a limitation of the same-origin security policy. Not all servers support cross-origin requests, you might get errors for URLs which normally work in the browser. In that case download the file and then use the downloaded file.

Only the HTTP and HTTPS protocols are supported for downloading.

Local Processing

The selected file is NOT uploaded anywhere, the ylogviewer uses the HTML5 features and several JavaScript libraries for handling the GZ, XZ and TAR files, it processes the selected file completely locally! That has several advantages:

  • Speed - nothing is uploaded or downloaded, no bandwidth limitations
  • Security - the logs might potentially contain sensitive data, all data stay in your machine!
  • Offline mode - the viewer can be used without internet connection