On 10/01/2014 09:23 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 01.10.2014 um 17:36 schrieb Nikolaus Rath: >> Package: systemd >> Version: 208-8 >> Severity: normal >> File: /bin/journalctl >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to retrieve the logs from the last book. journalctl(1) says: >> >> -b [ID][±offset], --boot=[ID][±offset] >> Show messages from a specific boot. This will add a match for >> "_BOOT_ID=". >> >> The argument may be empty, in which case logs for the current >> boot will be >> shown. >> >> If the boot ID is omitted, a positive offset will look up the >> boots starting >> from the beginning of the journal, and a equal-or-less-than >> zero offset will >> look up boots starting from the end of the journal. Thus, 1 >> means the first >> boot found in the journal in the chronological order, 2 the >> second and so >> on; while -0 is the last boot, -1 the boot before that, and >> so on. An empty >> offset is equivalent to specifying -0, except when the >> current boot is not >> the last boot (e.g. because --directory was specified to look >> at logs from a >> different machine). >> >> >> However, >> >> [0] nelarikon:~# journalctl -b -1 >> Failed to look up boot -1: Cannot assign requested address >> >> [1] nelarikon:~# journalctl --boot=-1 >> Failed to look up boot -1: Cannot assign requested address >> >> > I do assume that you have created a /var/log/journal directory? No, I did not. Since journalctl -xb was working out of the box, I was assuming journalctl -b -1 would work as well. I'll setup /var/log/journal as described in README.Debian (only looked at that now).
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