This is a recurring submission and includes corrections to:
- missing words, preposition choice.
- change of /lib to /usr/lib, because that is what most distros are
using as the system-wide location for systemd/udev files.
This adds the new library call sd_journal_open_container() and a new
"-M" switch to journalctl. Particular care is taken that journalctl's
"-b" switch resolves to the current boot ID of the container, not the
host.
Suggested by David Wilkins <dwilkins@maths.tcd.ie> in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967521:
> [Specific boot ID is a] bit of a palaver to obtain. I consulted the
> verbose dump of the journal to discover the _BOOT_ID for the
> timestamp, and then generated the journal dump for that boot using
> journalctl _BOOT_ID=foo -o short-monotonic.
This is a recurring submission and includes corrections to various
issue spotted. I guess I can just skip over reporting ubiquitous comma
placement fixes…
We already shew lines in full when using a pager or not on a
tty. The commit disables ellipsization in the sole remaining case,
namely when --follow is used.
This has been a popular request for a long time, and indeed, full
output seems much more useful. Old behaviour can still be requested by
using --no-full. Old options retain their behaviour for compatiblity,
but aren't advertised as much. This change applies only to jornalctl,
not to systemctl, when ellipsization is useful to keep the layout.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984758
This includes regularly-submitted corrections to comma setting and
orthographical mishaps that appeared in man/ in recent commits.
In this particular commit:
- the usual comma fixes
- expand contractions (this is prose)
Instead of :-0, :1, :5, etc., use -0, 1 or +1, 5, etc. For BOOT_ID+OFFSET,
use BOOT_ID+offset or BOOT_ID-offset (either + or - is required).
Also make error handling a bit more robust and verbose.
Modify the man page to describe the most common case (-b) first,
and the second most common case (-b -1) second.
The list and descriptions of valid output options was difficult to read,
so break up the long block of text into discrete man page list items to
improve readability.
Hi,
I redid the boot ID look up to use enumerate_unique.
This is quite fast if the cache is warm but painfully slow if
it isn't. It has a slight chance of returning the wrong order if
realtime clock jumps around.
This one has to do n searches for every boot ID there is plus
a sort, so it depends heavily on cache hotness. This is in contrast
to the other way of look-up through filtering by a MESSAGE_ID,
which only needs about 1 seek + whatever amount of relative IDs
you want to walk.
I also have a linked-list + (in-place) mergesort version of this
patch, which has pretty much the same runtime. But since this one
is using libc sorting and armortized allocation, I prefer this
one.
To summarize: The MESSAGE_ID way is a *lot* faster but can be
incomplete due to rotation, while the enumerate+sort will find
every boot ID out there but will be painfully slow for large
journals and cold caches.
You choose :P
Jan
When manpages are displayed on a terminal, <literal>s are indistinguishable
from surrounding text. Add quotes everywhere, remove duplicate quotes,
and tweak a few lists for consistent formatting.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874631
--user basically gives messages from your own systemd --user services.
--system basically gives messages from PID 1, kernel, and --system
services. Those two options are not exahustive, because a priviledged
user might be able to see messages from other users, and they will not
be shown with either or both of those flags.
Everything which is an absolute filename marked with <filename></filename>
lands in the index, unless noindex= attribute is present. Should make
it easier for people to find stuff when they are looking at a file on
disk.
Various formatting errors in manpages are fixed, kernel-install(1) is
restored to formatting sanity.
Previously only one "--unit=" or "--user-unit" could be specified.
With this patch, journalcrtl can show multiple units.
$ journalctl -u systemd-udevd.service -u sshd.service -u crond.service -b
-- Logs begin at Sa 2013-03-23 11:08:45 CET, end at Fr 2013-04-12
09:10:22 CEST. --
Apr 12 08:41:37 lenovo systemd[1]: Started udev Kernel Device Manager.
Apr 12 08:41:37 lenovo systemd[1]: Stopped udev Kernel Device Manager.
Apr 12 08:41:38 lenovo systemd[1]: Started udev Kernel Device Manager.
Apr 12 08:41:38 lenovo crond[291]: (CRON) INFO (Syslog will be used
instead of sendmail.)
Apr 12 08:41:38 lenovo crond[291]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify
support)
Apr 12 08:41:39 lenovo systemd[1]: Starting OpenSSH server daemon...
Apr 12 08:41:39 lenovo systemd[1]: Started OpenSSH server daemon.
Apr 12 08:41:39 lenovo sshd[355]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Apr 12 08:41:39 lenovo sshd[355]: Server listening on :: port 22.
Apr 12 08:41:39 lenovo mtp-probe[373]: checking bus 1, device 8:
"/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.5/1-1.5.6/1-1.5.6.2/1-1.5.6.2.1"
Seems natural to be able to specify relative directory,
e.g. with journalctl -D. And even if, this should be checked
in front-end code, not in the library.
journalctl -u unit is not very useful, because it doesn't show
systemd messages about starting, stopping, coredumps, etc,
like systemctl status unit does. Make it show the same
information using the same rules.
If somebody really want to see just messages from by the unit,
it is easy enough to use _SYSTEMD_UNIT=...
Option listings seemed to be pretty much random, some were short opt,
long opt, others were long opt, short opt. This just makes every option
with a short and long opt that I could find in the order short opt, long
opt, for formatting's sake.
New sections are added: PAM options, crypttab options, commandline
options, miscellaneous. The last category will be used for all
untagged <varname> elements.
Commandline options sections is meant to be a developer tool: when
adding an option it is sometimes useful to be able to check if
similarly named options exist elsewhere.
Sometimes it is better to see messages in full, and the existing
set of options didn't allow this easily. E.g. now
journalctl -f --full
will behave like
tail -f /var/log/messages
of yore.
Long option only for now, since small letters are becoming
scarce, and this doesn't feel like a capital-letter-option.
'-u' would be nice, and the above command would be spelled
journalctl -fu
The message catalog can be used to attach short help texts to log lines,
keyed by their MESSAGE_ID= fields. This is useful to help the
administrator understand the context and cause of a message, find
possible solutions and find further related documentation.
Since this is keyed off MESSAGE_ID= this will only work for native
journal messages.
The message catalog supports i18n, and is useful to augment english
language system messages with explanations in the local language.
This commit only includes short explanatory messages for a few example
message IDs, we'll add more complete documentation for the relevant
systemd messages later on.
