On Do, 14.05.20 16:11, Dave Howorth (syst...@howorth.org.uk) wrote: > > I've never even heard of a _BOOT_ID before, so it seems I'll need to do > some reading to answer my original questions. Where's a good place to > start?
The _BOOT_ID is simply random ID associated with every boot by the kernel. i.e. the stuff exposed by the kernel in /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id. The journal implicitly attaches the data from that file to each log line in the _BOOT_ID field. See systemd.journal-fields(7). Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
