Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:37:03 +0100 Patrick Lists fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: I meant the transmission of the log to another log server. Not the log itself. Anyway, here is Lennart

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-24 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Frank Murphy wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:37:03 +0100 Patrick Lists fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: I meant the transmission of the log to another log server. Not the log itself. Anyway, here is Lennart Poettering's rationale behind journald: One of the things you will see after

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Jonas, I have a comment, and a question. On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 03:46:55PM +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: 2013/11/17 Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz: It was mean mainly from administrator view. When things go bad, machine HW/SW fail or any other disasters occurs, logs are very

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: I have been very frustrated with journalctl. The manual page is very unhelpful in that regard. For example the other day, I wanted to investigate why my laptop shutdown suddenly (I think it was overheating), but

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:43:57PM +, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: I have been very frustrated with journalctl. The manual page is very unhelpful in that regard. For example the other day, I wanted to investigate why my

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:43:57PM +, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: I have been very frustrated with journalctl. The manual page is very unhelpful

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2013/11/18 Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com: Hi Jonas, I have a comment, and a question. On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 03:46:55PM +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: The journald log format is documented at least to some extent [1], and there exists free software for reading the log. To me, it

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
Sorry for posting again so soon and replying to myself, but I just noticed one very useful thing that might help quite much in the specific problem you described: 2013/11/18 Joonas Sarajärvi m...@iki.fi: 2013/11/18 Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com: the other day, I wanted to investigate

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 04:48:32PM +1030, Tim wrote: Tim: And if logs are in a format that you cannot read, you cannot safely submit them to an outside server. You don't know what they contain. Logon credentials, confidential data that you're working on, etc. Patrick Lists: IIRC

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 05:29:27PM +, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:43:57PM +, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: I have been very

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 07:31:21PM +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: 2013/11/18 Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com: Hi Jonas, I have a comment, and a question. On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 03:46:55PM +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: The journald log format is documented at least to some

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 07:44:55PM +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: Sorry for posting again so soon and replying to myself, but I just noticed one very useful thing that might help quite much in the specific problem you described: 2013/11/18 Joonas Sarajärvi m...@iki.fi: 2013/11/18 Suvayu

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Steven Stern wrote: On 11/15/2013 04:46 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous bullshit, In what way might the logs be hazardous? It was mean mainly from administrator view. When things go bad, machine HW/SW fail or any other

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 17 November 2013, Frantisek Hanzlik sent: Binary logs, by contrast, may be useless when log file is damaged or I haven't this one unique utility for reading them. And my experiences with systems where binary logs are implemented says clearly that binary logs is bad idea.

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Patrick Lists
On 11/17/2013 11:21 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 17 November 2013, Frantisek Hanzlik sent: Binary logs, by contrast, may be useless when log file is damaged or I haven't this one unique utility for reading them. And my experiences with systems where binary logs are implemented says

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:12:08 +0100 Patrick Lists fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: IIRC that's the reason why journald supports encryption. It's not encrypted it's binary, similar to any compiled app or virus. -- Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- users mailing list

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Patrick Lists
On 11/17/2013 12:16 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:12:08 +0100 Patrick Lists fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: IIRC that's the reason why journald supports encryption. It's not encrypted it's binary, similar to any compiled app or virus. I meant the transmission of

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:37:03 +0100 Patrick Lists fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: I meant the transmission of the log to another log server. Not the log itself. Anyway, here is Lennart Poettering's rationale behind journald: One of the things you will see after a hard reset is:

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Patrick Lists fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: On 11/17/2013 11:21 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 17 November 2013, Frantisek Hanzlik sent: Binary logs, by contrast, may be useless when log file is damaged or I haven't this one unique utility for

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2013/11/17 Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz: Steven Stern wrote: On 11/15/2013 04:46 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous bullshit, In what way might the logs be hazardous? It was mean mainly from administrator view. When

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: 2013/11/17 Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz: Steven Stern wrote: On 11/15/2013 04:46 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous bullshit, In what way might the logs be hazardous? It was mean mainly from

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/17/2013 12:32 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: I'm convinced it is as similar things on eg. ms windows (binary logs, registry,...) - when is all working fine, then it look fine too. Yes. When there's a major crash, you may not have access to the fancy programs for reading binary logs,

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:46:40PM -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/17/2013 12:32 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: I'm convinced it is as similar things on eg. ms windows (binary logs, registry,...) - when is all working fine, then it look fine too. Yes. When there's a major crash, you may not have

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/17/2013 02:18 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: A GUI for the journal is already being developed. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Logs That's nice, although I'd like to have a CLI reader as well if there isn't one already. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:44:21PM +0100, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: I agree, all systemd stuff seems very crude for me. And 'enough time' to debug or help to fix systemd monster I really not have, I even don't have time to report all bugs which happens to me. Thus I must only wish to systemd

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: That's nice, although I'd like to have a CLI reader as well if there isn't one already. There is and it has been mentioned before. Use journalctl. Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Tim
Tim: And if logs are in a format that you cannot read, you cannot safely submit them to an outside server. You don't know what they contain. Logon credentials, confidential data that you're working on, etc. Patrick Lists: IIRC that's the reason why journald supports encryption. I don't

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-16 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Rick Stevens wrote: On 11/15/2013 02:46 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik issued this missive: For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous bullshit, for another on my two F19 machines systemd-journald occupy significant part of resources (after several days it is often 1.5 to 2.5

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-16 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: On 15.11.2013 11:46, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous bullshit, for another on my two F19 machines systemd-journald occupy significant part of resources (after several days it is often 1.5 to 2.5 GB RAM and

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-16 Thread Steven Stern
On 11/15/2013 04:46 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous bullshit, In what way might the logs be hazardous? -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-16 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: I tried delete '/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald', but this may not be called clean solution. And after that, several services (e.g. sendmail, dovecot, sshd - what I shortly browse) stop logging via rsyslogd. On

How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-15 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous bullshit, for another on my two F19 machines systemd-journald occupy significant part of resources (after several days it is often 1.5 to 2.5 GB RAM and several GB on /var/log/journal/*/* filesystem). Then, how I can avoid this

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-15 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/15/2013 02:46 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik issued this missive: For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous bullshit, for another on my two F19 machines systemd-journald occupy significant part of resources (after several days it is often 1.5 to 2.5 GB RAM and several GB on

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-15 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 15.11.2013 11:46, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous bullshit, for another on my two F19 machines systemd-journald occupy significant part of resources (after several days it is often 1.5 to 2.5 GB RAM and several GB on