On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 09:50:43AM +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Tue, 09.10.12 09:09, Chris Adams (cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > 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> > > So the rescue system (which might not always be Fedora) must have > journalctl installed. Is the file format stable, or can it break if the > rescue system has a different version of journalctl? Is the format > perchance even documented so that other tools for reading logs could be > written? This would be essential for libguestfs tools to parse logs out of guests (we do it now by reading /var/log/messages etc which has all of the properties you state). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
