How to check syslog in Bash on Linux?

Question

In C we log this way:

syslog( LOG_INFO, \"proxying %s\", url );

In Linux how can we check the log?

Answer 1

If you like Vim, it has built-in syntax highlighting for the syslog file, e.g. it will highlight error messages in red.

vi +'syntax on' /var/log/syslog