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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2013-03-13 19:30:05 -0400 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2013-03-13 19:53:45 -0400 |
| commit | 7199aa96ce19468d9ce4cb21a13e32a3792fde41 (patch) | |
| tree | ce6fb434b2af0e46b3be95b3a1c2818e376c2bf1 /man | |
| parent | 886a64fe6903bc1ccde5c7af0eac6786918c8e49 (diff) | |
journalctl: show systemd messages about unit for -u
journalctl -u unit is not very useful, because it doesn't show
systemd messages about starting, stopping, coredumps, etc,
like systemctl status unit does. Make it show the same
information using the same rules.
If somebody really want to see just messages from by the unit,
it is easy enough to use _SYSTEMD_UNIT=...
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/journalctl.xml | 26 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml index 4bbc288b7a..632a8134db 100644 --- a/man/journalctl.xml +++ b/man/journalctl.xml @@ -324,22 +324,28 @@ <term><option>-u</option></term> <term><option>--unit=</option></term> - <listitem><para>Show data only of the - specified unit. This will add a match - for <literal>_SYSTEMD_UNIT=</literal> - for the specified - unit.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Show messages for the + specified systemd unit. This will add + a match for messages from the unit + (<literal>_SYSTEMD_UNIT=</literal>) + and additional matches for messages + from systemd and messages about + coredumps for the specified unit. + </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>--user-unit=</option></term> - <listitem><para>Show data only of the + <listitem><para>Show messages for the specified user session unit. This will - add a match for - <literal>_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT=</literal> - for the specified - unit.</para></listitem> + add a match for messages from the unit + (<literal>_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT=</literal> + and <literal>_UID=</literal>) and + additional matches for messages from + session systemd and messages about + coredumps for the specified unit. + </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |