On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:54:55 +0100 "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote:
> On Sun, February 16, 2014 22:16, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> oh? I can pipe that output into cat or any any daemon I like? > >> Doesn't look like so. > > > > But it does, you can "cat" with journalctl; it's one of its output > > options: > > > > -o, --output= > > cat > > generates a very terse output only showing the actual > > message of each journal entry with no meta data, not even a > > timestamp. > > As I do not have systemd installed on any machine, I can't check the > man-pages. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/man > But, if that is the only method to get parseable text from journalctl, > then that is less then useless. Why? There are other output methods. See the man pages... > I would expect an export option providing the same detail level as I > currently find in /var/log/messages. That's what you can control with the various options of -o. > A timestamp is a minimum required for logging system output. Depends on how you are processing that output. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
