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Re: End of hypocrisy ?



On Thursday 07 August 2014 08:52:53 Slavko wrote:
> Ahoj,
> 
> Dňa Wed, 6 Aug 2014 22:15:08 +0300 Andrei POPESCU
> 
> <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> napísal:
> > On Mi, 06 aug 14, 11:54:17, Slavko wrote:
> > > Then what are advantages of the systemd? I see only disadvantages...
> > 
> > The advantage of journald is that it captures more information
> > because it runs much earlier and also because it captures stdin (?!)
> > and stderr of daemons. The data has more metadata and is also better
> > structured and indexed (hence the need for binary storage).
> 
> OK, i see advantage here - i sometime need to get the init script
> output, but it is often not stored in logs, then i cannot compare error
> messages with these from previous boots (or daemon starts). If i
> properly understand, with journald it is possible.
> 
> regards

Is /var/log/,... stuff now obsolete or partly so? Which items? Stuff seems to be 
updating there and there are the usual logs and logrotate files.

Journald -- used it several times already. Is there a GUI app for browsing the 
contents?


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