On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 07:34:50PM +0200, drago01 wrote: > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 04:16:16PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >> On Tue, 09.10.12 09:09, Chris Adams (cmad...@hiwaay.net) wrote: > >> > >> > Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerq...@0pointer.de> said: > >> > > If people want some pixel-perfect copy of the traditional > >> > > /var/log/messages, then they should just run "journalctl" without any > >> > > args. It's much better than /var/log/messages: > >> > > >> > How do you read this log when the system is not running (e.g. mounting > >> > filesystems of a drive on another system, running from a rescue image, > >> > etc.)? > >> > >> journalctl -D <pathtothejournalfiles> > > > > What is <pathtothejournalfiles> in an actual system? > > From the man page: > > By default the journal stores log data in /run/log/journal/. Since > /run/ is volatile log data is lost at reboot.
WTF? > To make the data > persistent it is sufficient to create /var/log/journal/ where > systemd-journald will then store the data. I'm assuming this directory will be created, before /var/log/messages disappears. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
