> From: zbyszek@in.waw.pl
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:09:14PM -0400, John.Florian@dart.biz wrote:
> > > From: notting@redhat.com
> > >
> > > John.Florian@dart.biz (John.Florian@dart.biz) said:
> > > > >   You can provide binary path (_EXE=) by ”journalctl
> > /usr/sbin/sshd”.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, but that's of little help with applications using interpreted
> > > > languages (e.g., python).  I want to match on the name of the python
> > > > program, not python itself.
> > >
> > > journalctl _COMM=<blah> works for me on F19.
> > >
> >
> >
> > As it does for me, but somewhere it got clipped that what I was
> > asking/wishing for was a convenient -C option (like ps) to do just this,
> This surely could be done. But maybe it would be better to make
> 'journalctl /path/to/program' smarter, so that it would look at _COMM when
> program is not an executable. This way things would work automagically.

That would be suitable too, if not more so.  Also, for whatever reason, I've noticed that "journalctl blah" is much, much slower than "journalctl _EXE=bla".  Is that a bug or are they not exactly equivalents?

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John Florian