On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:35:33AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:30:20PM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 08:56:45AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
Is there a way to read binary journals from non-Linux OSes?
Compiling journalctl on UINXy OSes should not be too much of a problem. You'd need dbus >= 1.4.0, libcap, liblzma (if used by the journal files in question). Not trivial but certainly doable.
Zbyszek
I was more thinking of the typical home use case, where a user has installed Fedora alongside Windows or Mac OS. The latter is UNIXy, but the former is not. Maybe as part of this feature, Fedora should release Windows packages of journalctl or a similar tool for reading the logs.
Usually the logs are on ext4 or btrfs partition. Getting the files out of there without running linux is enough of a technological challenge fo most poeple, that actually decoding the files is trivial in comparison. I'm pretty sure journalctl for Windows would find very little use.
Zbyszek