Also, while we are at it, beef it up, by adding json-seq support (i.e.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7464). This is particularly useful in
conjunction with jq's --seq switch.
Let's remove redundancy and not advertise "journalctl --new-id128"
anymore, now that we have "systemd-id128 new" in a proper tool.
This allows us to reduce the overly large journalctl command set a bit.
Note that this just removes the --help and man text, the call remains
available for compat reasons.
The raison d'etre for this program is printing machine-app-specific IDs. We
provide a library function for that, but not a convenient API. We can hardly
ask people to quickly hack their own C programs or call libsystemd through CFFI
in python or another scripting language if they just want to print an ID.
Verb 'new' was already available as 'journalctl --new-id128', but this makes
it more discoverable.
v2:
- rename binary to systemd-id128
- make --app-specific= into a switch that applies to boot-id and machine-id
This makes it so that tests no longer need to know the absolute paths to the
source and build dirs, instead using the systemd-runtest.env file to get these
paths when running from the build tree.
Confirmed that test-catalog works on `ninja test`, when called standalone and
also when the environment file is not present, in which case it will use the
installed location under /usr/lib/systemd/catalog.
The location can now also be overridden for this test by setting the
$SYSTEMD_CATALOG_DIR environment variable.
This is a bit like the info link in most of GNU's --help texts, but we
don't do info but man pages, and we make them properly clickable on
terminal supporting that, because awesome.
I think it's generally advisable to link up our (brief) --help texts and
our (more comprehensive) man pages a bit, so this should be an easy and
straight-forward way to do it.
The function replaces a couple commas, a semicolon and the final newline with
zero bytes in the string passed to it. The 'const' seems to have been added
by accident during a bulk edit (more specifically 3b3154df7e).
Even if built without gcrypt, show the relevant options in help message.
Otherwise, the help message diverges from the man page or suggestions
by the shell completion.
Looked for definitions of functions using the *_compare_func() suffix.
Tested:
- Unit tests passed (ninja -C build/ test)
- Installed this build and booted with it.
This is useful if someone wants to recreate the original syslog datagram. We
already include timestamp information as _SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=, and in
normal use that timestamp, converted back to the form used by syslog
(Mth dd HH:MM:SS) would usually give the value. But there are various
circumstances where this might not be true. Most obviously, if the datagram is
sent a bit later after being prepared, the time is rounded to the nearest
second, and it might be off. This is especially bad around New Year when the
syslog timestamp wraps around. Then the same timezone and locale need to be
used to recreate the original timestamp. In the end doing this reliably is
complicated, and it seems much easier to just unconditionally include the
original timestamp.
If the original timestamp cannot be located, we store the full log line.
This way, it should be always possible to recreate the original input.
Example:
MESSAGE=x
SYSLOG_TIMESTAMP=Sep 15 15:07:58
SYSLOG_RAW
^]^@^@^@^@^@^@^@<13>Sep 15 15:07:58 HOST: x^@y
_PID=3318
_SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=1530743976393553
Fixes#2398.
Lennart Poettering