man: add note about paging and colors to journalctl(1)

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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2013-07-15 21:03:17 -04:00
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@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ Features:
- refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
- journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
- journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
- journalctl: show multiline log messages sanely, expand tabs, and show all valid utf8 messages
- journalctl: expand tabs
- journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
- journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
- Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal

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@ -107,6 +107,20 @@
users who are members of the <literal>adm</literal>
group get access to the system journal and the
journals of other users.</para>
<para>The output is paged through
<command>less</command> by default, and long lines are
"truncated" to screen width. The hidden part can be
viewed by using the left-arrow and right-arrow
keys. Paging can be disabled, see
<option>--no-pager</option> and section Environment
below.</para>
<para>When outputing to a tty, lines are colored
according to priority: lines of level ERROR and higher
are colored red, lines of level NOTICE and higher are
highlighted, and other lines are displayed normally.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>