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I don't know why you would go to Terminal to do this. It's a lot easier to view it using the Console app. It has a full GUI--you can scroll around, search, and save.

Remote access over ssh for example?

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Because Console no longer offers this view. It lumps all messages together.

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Unless I'm missing the point of this hint, you can view individual logs - console.app just defaults to an 'All Messages' smart filter.

You could probably also (with a bit of manpage reading) re-establish the old console.log by adding an appropriate entry in /etc/syslog.conf
edit Although now that I've done some quick searching, it looks like that's easier said than done; lots of 'how do I do this' but no 'this is how I did it' articles.

Am I missing something?
tail /var/log/system.log

syslog -C open -f
opens the syslog in TextEdit where you can view, search, etc.
Me, I usually pipe things like this
syslog -C bbmore
where 'bbmore' is
alias bbmore='bbedit --clean --view-top --new-window -t ''Unix output''

What's different between this and the stock 'Console Messages' query provided by Console.app (in the 'Show Log List' sidebar)? That query certainly looked to me like the same thing as the old console.log file (and it looks like a prettier version of what syslog -C outputs).
Or have OS versions post-10.5 removed the 'Console Messages' query and just left the 'All Messages' one?
That said, syslog -C does look like a handy tip for ssh usage, where I have bemoaned the loss of the console.log file.

As I say in the hint, when Leopard came around, they removed that from Console.

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Sorry, looking back I see I wasn't clear.
I was talking about the 'Console Messages' item that's present by default in the sidebar starting on 10.5, replacing the item for 'console.log' (the file), which was removed on 10.5.
The 'Console Messages' item most certainly is present on 10.5; it was introduced then, not removed then ;-) Has it been removed post-10.5, as my second paragraph asked?

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I didn't have a 'Console Messages' item in my log list on Lion, but I was able to re-create it by going to 'File' > 'New System Log Query..' and adding the condition:
[ Facility ] [ is equal to ] com.apple.console
That matches the behavior of 'syslog -C', according to the syslog man page (and my own brief testing).

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Interestingly, the Terminal output is more readable. For example, in mine right now:
May 31 23:39:11 Walden [0x0-0x1ee1ee].com.apple.Safari[4862] <Notice>: May 31 23:39:11 Walden.local WebProcess[4864] <Error>: CGContextSetLineDash: invalid dash array: at least one element must be non-zero.
--- last message repeated 83 times ---
May 31 23:39:12 Walden [0x0-0x1ee1ee].com.apple.Safari[4862] <Notice>: May 31 23:39:12 Walden.local WebProcess[4864] <Error>: CGContextSetLineDash: invalid dash array: at least one element must be non-zero.
--- last message repeated 19 times ---
Whereas Console shows each of the repetitions.

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Bring it straight into vim via:
:r ! syslog -C
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