On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:26:15PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek@in.waw.pl said:
Sure, those are the defaults. If you had written that you don't like the systemd defaults, instead of talking about "bugs", this whole conversation would have been much productive.
When I described the behavior, I was told I was wrong and that the lines weren't chopped (which I then wondered why there was a "--full" option). Neither the documentation or the emails mentioned that journalctl overrides $LESS with the option to chop lines; I only found that out by tracing the process.
The UI is to a large degree a child of the git UI, I have to admit I find it self-explanatory. But I can see how one wouldn't think of pressing the right arrow, if one was convinced that jouranlctl has truncated the lines. An explanatory paragraph has been added to journalctl(1).
Another thing that I don't see in the man page is why some lines are bold/in color.
error -> red, notice -> bold, etc.
Which Lennart said should be documented in the man page, which is now on the to-do list.
Also done. Both changes are online [1], and should be available in the next Fedora rawhide package.
It's a feature you don't get traditionally because syslog drops the priority information from the on-disk format.
I'd expect that if somebody thought that was an important default, the log format would have been updated years ago when rsyslog became the default.
Not without (a) breaking scripts, (b) annoying people, because precious screen estate would be wasted on markers for the log level.
Zbyszek