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2013-12-11journal: add ability to browse journals of running OS containersLennart Poettering
This adds the new library call sd_journal_open_container() and a new "-M" switch to journalctl. Particular care is taken that journalctl's "-b" switch resolves to the current boot ID of the container, not the host.
2013-10-28journalctl: add --list-boots to show boot IDs and timesZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Suggested by David Wilkins <dwilkins@maths.tcd.ie> in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967521: > [Specific boot ID is a] bit of a palaver to obtain. I consulted the > verbose dump of the journal to discover the _BOOT_ID for the > timestamp, and then generated the journal dump for that boot using > journalctl _BOOT_ID=foo -o short-monotonic.
2013-10-15man: wording and grammar updatesJan Engelhardt
This is a recurring submission and includes corrections to various issue spotted. I guess I can just skip over reporting ubiquitous comma placement fixes…
2013-10-07journalctl: flip to --full by defaultZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
We already shew lines in full when using a pager or not on a tty. The commit disables ellipsization in the sole remaining case, namely when --follow is used. This has been a popular request for a long time, and indeed, full output seems much more useful. Old behaviour can still be requested by using --no-full. Old options retain their behaviour for compatiblity, but aren't advertised as much. This change applies only to jornalctl, not to systemctl, when ellipsization is useful to keep the layout. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984758
2013-09-24journalctl(1): s/adm/systemd-journal/Dave Reisner
2013-09-10man: wording and grammar updatesJan Engelhardt
This includes regularly-submitted corrections to comma setting and orthographical mishaps that appeared in man/ in recent commits. In this particular commit: - the usual comma fixes - expand contractions (this is prose)
2013-09-10man: add not to not use -x in bug reportsZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2013-08-20logs-show: add short-precise mode with us timestampsZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Also, always show us timestamps in verbose mode. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=991678
2013-07-21man: wording and grammar updatesJan Engelhardt
This includes regularly-submitted corrections to comma setting and orthographical mishaps that appeared in man/ in recent commits.
2013-07-19man: Fix example to use the new --boot syntaxJan Janssen
2013-07-18journalctl: add ”short-iso” output format with verbose ISO8601 timestampsTomasz Torcz
Example: 2013-07-18T10:10:01+0200 sandworm CROND[20957]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1)
2013-07-17journalctl: remove ":" from the --boot syntaxZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Instead of :-0, :1, :5, etc., use -0, 1 or +1, 5, etc. For BOOT_ID+OFFSET, use BOOT_ID+offset or BOOT_ID-offset (either + or - is required). Also make error handling a bit more robust and verbose. Modify the man page to describe the most common case (-b) first, and the second most common case (-b -1) second.
2013-07-16journalctl: augment short mode with a cursor at the endZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Two options are added: --show-cursor to print the cursor at the end, and --after-cursor to resume logs on the next line after the previous one.
2013-07-16man: improve readability of --output options in journalctl(1)Jason St. John
The list and descriptions of valid output options was difficult to read, so break up the long block of text into discrete man page list items to improve readability.
2013-07-16journalctl: Add support for showing messages from a previous bootJan Janssen
Hi, I redid the boot ID look up to use enumerate_unique. This is quite fast if the cache is warm but painfully slow if it isn't. It has a slight chance of returning the wrong order if realtime clock jumps around. This one has to do n searches for every boot ID there is plus a sort, so it depends heavily on cache hotness. This is in contrast to the other way of look-up through filtering by a MESSAGE_ID, which only needs about 1 seek + whatever amount of relative IDs you want to walk. I also have a linked-list + (in-place) mergesort version of this patch, which has pretty much the same runtime. But since this one is using libc sorting and armortized allocation, I prefer this one. To summarize: The MESSAGE_ID way is a *lot* faster but can be incomplete due to rotation, while the enumerate+sort will find every boot ID out there but will be painfully slow for large journals and cold caches. You choose :P Jan
2013-07-15man: add note about paging and colors to journalctl(1)Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2013-07-14journalctl: add --force option to recreate FSSShawn Landden
2013-07-03man: more grammar improvementsJan Engelhardt
- place commas - expand contractions (this is written prose :) - add some missing words
2013-06-26man: always supply quotes around literalsZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
When manpages are displayed on a terminal, <literal>s are indistinguishable from surrounding text. Add quotes everywhere, remove duplicate quotes, and tweak a few lists for consistent formatting. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874631
2013-06-18journal: add references to SSKG paper FSS is based onLennart Poettering
2013-06-17journalctl,loginctl,systemctl,systemd-cgls: add -l as alias for --fullDaniel Albers
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65850
2013-06-10journalctl: allow the user to specify the file(s) to useZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
This is useful for debugging and feels pretty natural. For example answering the question "is this big .journal file worth keeping?" is made easier.
2013-06-10journalctl: add --system/--user flagsZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
--user basically gives messages from your own systemd --user services. --system basically gives messages from PID 1, kernel, and --system services. Those two options are not exahustive, because a priviledged user might be able to see messages from other users, and they will not be shown with either or both of those flags.
2013-05-21man: Document missing optionsJan Janssen
2013-05-03man: add various filenames to the indexZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Everything which is an absolute filename marked with <filename></filename> lands in the index, unless noindex= attribute is present. Should make it easier for people to find stuff when they are looking at a file on disk. Various formatting errors in manpages are fixed, kernel-install(1) is restored to formatting sanity.
2013-04-17journalctl: specify "--unit=" and "--user-unit" multiple timesHarald Hoyer
Previously only one "--unit=" or "--user-unit" could be specified. With this patch, journalcrtl can show multiple units. $ journalctl -u systemd-udevd.service -u sshd.service -u crond.service -b -- Logs begin at Sa 2013-03-23 11:08:45 CET, end at Fr 2013-04-12 09:10:22 CEST. -- Apr 12 08:41:37 lenovo systemd[1]: Started udev Kernel Device Manager. Apr 12 08:41:37 lenovo systemd[1]: Stopped udev Kernel Device Manager. Apr 12 08:41:38 lenovo systemd[1]: Started udev Kernel Device Manager. Apr 12 08:41:38 lenovo crond[291]: (CRON) INFO (Syslog will be used instead of sendmail.) Apr 12 08:41:38 lenovo crond[291]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support) Apr 12 08:41:39 lenovo systemd[1]: Starting OpenSSH server daemon... Apr 12 08:41:39 lenovo systemd[1]: Started OpenSSH server daemon. Apr 12 08:41:39 lenovo sshd[355]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22. Apr 12 08:41:39 lenovo sshd[355]: Server listening on :: port 22. Apr 12 08:41:39 lenovo mtp-probe[373]: checking bus 1, device 8: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.5/1-1.5.6/1-1.5.6.2/1-1.5.6.2.1"
2013-03-28journalctl: support --root for message catalogsZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2013-03-19journalct: beef up entry listingZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
The ability to dump catalog entries in full and by id is added.
2013-03-18sd-journal: do not require path to be absoluteZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Seems natural to be able to specify relative directory, e.g. with journalctl -D. And even if, this should be checked in front-end code, not in the library.
2013-03-13journalctl: show systemd messages about unit for -uZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
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=...
2013-03-13man: fix some typosThomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen
2013-03-07journalctl: imply -n1000 when -e is usedLennart Poettering
Make sure the pager does not have to buffer an unbounded number of log messages, by default.
2013-03-07pager: introduce "jump to end" optionHarald Hoyer
$ journalctl -be is what you want :) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867841
2013-03-01journalctl: add --user-unit= switchDaniel Wallace
Add --user-unit= to make it possible to query for user logs by the name of the service.
2013-03-01journalctl: add --reverse option to show the newest lines firstLukas Nykryn
2013-02-13man: Make options consistentWilliam Giokas
Option listings seemed to be pretty much random, some were short opt, long opt, others were long opt, short opt. This just makes every option with a short and long opt that I could find in the order short opt, long opt, for formatting's sake.
2013-01-26man: extend systemd.directives(7) to all manual pagesZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
New sections are added: PAM options, crypttab options, commandline options, miscellaneous. The last category will be used for all untagged <varname> elements. Commandline options sections is meant to be a developer tool: when adding an option it is sometimes useful to be able to check if similarly named options exist elsewhere.
2012-11-30man: fix some spelling mistakesRamkumar Ramachandra
2012-11-17journalctl: add option to forgo ellipsizationZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Sometimes it is better to see messages in full, and the existing set of options didn't allow this easily. E.g. now journalctl -f --full will behave like tail -f /var/log/messages of yore. Long option only for now, since small letters are becoming scarce, and this doesn't feel like a capital-letter-option. '-u' would be nice, and the above command would be spelled journalctl -fu
2012-11-16man: link up journalctl man page with developer documenationLennart Poettering
2012-11-15journal: implement message catalogLennart Poettering
The message catalog can be used to attach short help texts to log lines, keyed by their MESSAGE_ID= fields. This is useful to help the administrator understand the context and cause of a message, find possible solutions and find further related documentation. Since this is keyed off MESSAGE_ID= this will only work for native journal messages. The message catalog supports i18n, and is useful to augment english language system messages with explanations in the local language. This commit only includes short explanatory messages for a few example message IDs, we'll add more complete documentation for the relevant systemd messages later on.
2012-10-25journal: properly serialize fields with multiple values into JSONLennart Poettering
This now matches the JSON serialization spec from: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/json
2012-10-23man: reword journalctl -n descriptionZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-10-18journalctl.xml: fix shortopt for --fieldDave Reisner
2012-10-18journalctl: implement quering field values with new -F switchLennart Poettering
Example: journalctl -F _SYSTEMD_UNIT will list all units that ever logged to the journal.
2012-10-16journalctl: add --unit=/-u to match by unit nameLennart Poettering
This applies unit_name_mangle() to the specified unit names and hence can handle weird characters nicely and will add unit suffixes as necessary.
2012-10-16Reword sentences that contain psuedo-English "resp."Andrew Eikum
As you likely know, Arch Linux is in the process of moving to systemd. So I was reading through the various systemd docs and quickly became baffled by this new abbreviation "resp.", which I've never seen before in my English-mother-tongue life. Some quick Googling turned up a reference: <http://www.transblawg.eu/index.php?/archives/870-Resp.-and-other-non-existent-English-wordsNicht-existente-englische-Woerter.html> I guess it's a literal translation of the German "Beziehungsweise", but English doesn't work the same way. The word "respectively" is used exclusively to provide an ordering connection between two lists. E.g. "the prefixes k, M, and G refer to kilo-, mega-, and giga-, respectively." It is also never abbreviated to "resp." So the sentence "Sets the default output resp. error output for all services and sockets" makes no sense to a natural English speaker. This patch removes all instances of "resp." in the man pages and replaces them with sentences which are much more clear and, hopefully, grammatically valid. In almost all instances, it was simply replacing "resp." with "or," which the original author (Lennart?) could probably just do in the future. The only other instances of "resp." are in the src/ subtree, which I don't feel privileged to correct. Signed-off-by: Andrew Eikum <aeikum@codeweavers.com>
2012-10-11journalctl: implement --since= and --until for filtering by timeLennart Poettering
2012-10-11journal: support epxorting the journal in a format suitable for ↵Lennart Poettering
text/event-stream
2012-09-28journalctl: add --cursor switchLennart Poettering