On Sat, 29.09.12 02:11, David Strauss ([email protected]) wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Henrik /KaarPoSoft > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hence I would like to propose a new feature: > > "journalctrl -b <n>" > > should show messages from the n'th previous boot, > > default being n=0, i.e. current boot. > > > > What do you think about this? > > Rather than add a special case for boots, I'd prefer moving to a > mechanism more like git or Bazaar has for specifying revision ranges. > There would be various specification approaches, all of which > translate into (if they aren't intrinsically) a cursor position. Then, > it's modular for specifying the range by date, boot number, or any > other monotonic property of the journal entries. > > --since=boot:-1 --until=date:2012-09-29 > > --since=date:2012-09-29 --until=<some-entry-id> > > I'll look into how hard this would be to add. Any other monotonic > features we could use as a range for journal entries? The monotonic > feature is important so it's possible to discover the first or last > qualifying item in an efficient way like a binary search.
I recently added support for --cursor= to journalctl, but this is not complete yet. It is my intention to add some kind of time based seeking as well. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
