On 24.02.2015 17:01, Rich Freeman wrote: > Seems like there should be a systemd-users mailing list, actually. > This sort of situation is completely distro-agnostic.
Yes! And systemd-devel ml is always kind of "they will laugh at me and say ugly things!" ;-) > You certainly could design such an application. If you do so I'd > consider pulling the journald logs in JSON format. I'd also see if > somebody actually has written a journald library/class/etc for your > language of choice - it seems like that is the sort of thing that is > likely to exist soon if not already. One of the goals journald (and > systemd) is to provide more of an API for services so that there is > less parsing of text files and communicating via signals/etc. I'm > sure with appropriate permissions a process could just obtain log > entries via dbus, and using cursors poll for new entries (or maybe > there is a push/stream mechanism). > > Really though it seems like the solution is a generic log monitor with > rules for such things, with the monitor utilizing the JSON data from > journald for richer metadata/efficiency/accuracy. Well, it might be a nice challenge to do so ... sure! The real world challenge is that I have to provide the postfix-logs for one domain on one server (so far) for one "admin" to browse through (without giving him ssh-access ... it's a noob ...) No overkill paid here. But maybe I ask on systemd-devel-ml ... Stefan
