On Tue, 09.10.12 09:38, Chris Adams (cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > 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> > > And just what is the <pathtothejournalfiles> (relative to system /)? The path where the journal files resides or where the per-machine subdirs reside. More specifically "-D/var/log/journal/<machine-id>" if you only want to see the logs from that one machine. Or "-D/var/log/journal" if you want to see the logs from all per-machine dirs in there. The files will be interleaved as appropriate in that case. The machine ID is the contents of /etc/machine-id. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
