On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 05:56:33PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > > > > >As root journalctl produces a long list, tail journalctl produces > > > > > >"tail: cannot open ‘journalctl’ for reading: No such file or directory". > > > > > >Now I'm really confused. Any explanation? > > > > > > > I belive tail is designed for use with text files...which systemd journal > > isn't. > > > > > journalctl has a plethora of options listed in it's man page for > limiting the journal's output.
Saw that. > > Regardless, you can pipe journalctl output through tail, e.g.: > > <journalctl | tail -n 20> I get the same result (as root) with "tail journalctl" -- Bob Holtzman A man is a man who will fight with a sword or conquer Mt. Everest in snow. But the bravest of all owns a '34 Ford and tries for six thousand in low.