'Twas brillig, and Angelo Naselli at 12/11/12 12:09 did gyre and gimble: >> It's very easy to use the journal APIs (either by linking the >> library, using python bindings - not sure if there are external >> perl bindings yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are - or >> simply calling journalctl on the command line and parsing the >> result. It offers an easy to parse JSON format so even going via >> this route should be trivial if official bindings do not exist). >> You can get all logs between certain dates and for particular >> services with ease, without having to look in the right file or >> grep for the right binary. i.e. all the building blocks are in >> place for you :) > I read your comment in draklog bug, i have taken a note and i will > ask you to explain it better to me, since i'm not very familiar with > all this stuff. > > About binding, well libyui allows also to use python and ruby, > so rewriting my rubbish - quoting Steven :p - to re-implementing > another rubbish in python it could be possible and easy :D > > Anyway, Col ehm you could help in this project... > ...we will be very happy :D
Time is not on my side at present, but I'll do my best to advise and help out when I can. Minimal hacking may occur but I'm afraid I can't really promise anything at this stage. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
