Kevin Fenzi writes:
>
> How do you query this output? I just look at the logfile, and when
> it's not there, I never see it. What's the advantage of hiding
> output like that?
journalctl -u servicename
In all the times I've looked at the man pages for journalctl, I've never
noticed this. Instead all I've ever found is some other weirdness about
_SYSTEMD_UNIT= (I think, but don't actually remember) which I can never
even hope to remember.
Looking at the man page, *now* that you point it out, I see the option.
Buried among so much other unintelligible material.
Poettering reminds me of a teenager who thinks the world would be perfect
if everybody just did things his (gender-biased language *might* be
appropriate here) way. The difference is that distributions are giving
Poettering his way.
And in the process, they're tossing out all the well-established ways of
doing things. And users are supposed to learn and understand
incomprehensible material at the same time they're trying to fix something.
Systemd needs to be a vast improvement to justify this. And it seems that
not everyone even agrees that it's an improvement at all.
I really prefer using grep and less on a plain text log file that gets
rotated so it is of manageable length. It's simple. It works. It's
reliable. Which is just what I need when something is broken.
--
David Benfell
See
https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you do not understand the
attachment.