On Tue, 16.07.13 08:34, Frank Murphy (frankly3d@gmail.com) wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:53:56 +0000 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg@gmail.com wrote:
Nobody is talking about removing from the distribution entirely and quite frankly administrators that complain about journal have not actually tried it and experienced the flexibility the journactl gives them it truly is not as bad as some people are trying to make it out to be.
I like journalctl, it gives good info.
but as a test do: echo | journalctl -x --no-pager --since-today | mailx -s "Today's Journal" user (real isp email )
What's the "echo |" supposed to do?
Note that --no-pager is implied if you pipe the command.
Also note that it's --since=today, not --since-today.
then do: cat /var/log/messages | mailx -s "/var/log/messages" user (real isp email )
for me it was: Journalctl in calws-mail inbox: 5.47mb /var/log/messages in claws-mail inbox .58mb
Well, you added "-x" to the command line, so you get the message catalogue entries added in. Don't do that, and it is going to be smaller. Also, note that it's not defined where /var/log/messages is rotated, but "journalctl --since=today" will give you everything of today, regardless whether rotated or not.
So, you are comparing *very* different things.
Lennart