On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 04:16:16PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> On Tue, 09.10.12 09:09, Chris Adams (cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> >> > Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: >> > > If people want some pixel-perfect copy of the traditional >> > > /var/log/messages, then they should just run "journalctl" without any >> > > args. It's much better than /var/log/messages: >> > >> > How do you read this log when the system is not running (e.g. mounting >> > filesystems of a drive on another system, running from a rescue image, >> > etc.)? >> >> journalctl -D <pathtothejournalfiles> > > What is <pathtothejournalfiles> in an actual system? >From the man page: By default the journal stores log data in /run/log/journal/. Since /run/ is volatile log data is lost at reboot. To make the data persistent it is sufficient to create /var/log/journal/ where systemd-journald will then store the data. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
