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On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:23:52 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> No, I've never used systemd either. It's useful to be able to read |
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> /var/log/messages with less, probe it with grep/awk/perl, etc., without |
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> having to learn some special purpose script language. |
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journalctl outputs to less (or whatever $PAGER contains) by default or |
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you can pipe its output to anything else. Running journalctl with no |
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arguments is the equivalent of cat /var/log/messages. |
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I do have syslog installed, but that's a holdover from when I was |
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experimenting with systemd, I really could get rid of it now. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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