On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 01:48:07AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > "My laptop started acting up last tuesday, I should see whats in the > > logs from then" > > "I'd like to run a daily report on my logs" > These two are much better implemented via explicit time seeks. The > journal APIs support that just fine, journalctl currently > doesn't. However it's trivial to add that based on the lower level APIs, > the only thing that stopped me from doing that so far is that for that > we'd have to come up with a nice way to parse calendar timestamps, and I > want to be careful about that. that said the idea is to have two command > line args to journalctl where you can pass things such as: Not coincidentially, I filed an RFE bug for this yesterday: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864672 > Of course the time expressions for this need to be powerful enough so > that people can trivially express things like "everything from today", > or "everything since two weeks ago" and suchlike. +1 awesome. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
