Re: where is mail.log

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 30/11/2024 03:29, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Now, you might ask why the systemd journal is being preferred and kept
> over human-readable log files.  I don't think anyone on debian-user
> knows the answer to this.

<https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemctl-journal.html>
systemd for Administrators, Part XIII
Posted on Fr 18 Mai 2012
Log and Service Status

> The original reason we started to work on the journal was one specific
> feature idea, that to the outsider might appear simple but without the
> journal is difficult and inefficient to implement: along with the output
> of systemctl status we wanted to show the last 10 log messages of the
> daemon.

I could not recall where I saw a more verbose description of design 
ideas. Perhaps faster selection of records within a given time range.

Journald&journalctl have their shortcomings, but often they are more 
convenient during debugging: more precise timestamps, filtering by all 
processes from a service cgroup.