2014-08-18 13:46 GMT+02:00 Philippe De Swert <philippedesw...@gmail.com>: > Hi, Hi,
> > Having to often use journalctl it has slowly driven me insane with the > default options not matching common use cases. > > Attached is already a patch to start the journal at the end. Usually people > check the logs when something went wrong, and don't care about what happened > three weeks ago at the beginning of the log. Yes you can press the "end" key > to skip to the end but in some cases that freezes up the console for over a > minute. There is the --reverse or -r option to show the newest entries first, is this what you are looking for ? > > Other gripes are --no-pager... way too long to type on a virtual keyboard > when you are trying to use the logs old style with common unix > utilities. Maybe not having it by default, or introducing a shorter command > switch should not be hard to add. > > And also I would like to see the full logs always by default. Usually after > lots of searching you find the offending log entry for the error, only to > find out you forgot to pass the right command line options to journalctl and > the important bit is cut off. There is the --all or -a option for this. In the end, you just have to use journalctl -ar > > If you guys are willing to also consider those other two gripes I will glady > submit patches for those also. > > Regards, > > Philippe > > _______________________________________________ > systemd-devel mailing list > systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel > _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
