Max Nikulin (12024-02-23): > I am realizing that the following is not an answer to the asked question. > The thread is no more than useless arguing anyway. > > Some ideas that might be useful in close cases: > - a bunch of filtering options and --output=export as a part of log rotation > to have selective copy of the journal in an alternative directory
Hi. You know what? I think it is exactly the right answer. I think the principle for this thing is: journald maintains the current logs in a best-effort manner, but when it comes to archival, the needs and manners are too varied, it does not try to provide a ready-to-use solution, but journalctl provides all the tools necessary to implement what we want. If I am right, if it is indeed the way it is meant to be used, I just wish somebody would have bothered writing it in so many words at the start of a documentation. Thanks. -- Nicolas George
