On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 01:25:54PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > I am pretty sure that is just a misunderstanding. Note that journald > (i.e. the *server* side) will immediately move away (i.e. "rotate") all > journal files that it finds have not been set to "offline" when it > starts up before writing, in order to make sure that it will not > interfere with journal files that are incompletely written (possibly > further corrupting them). However journalctl (i.e. the *client* side) > will still access the file, and interleave it with all others it finds, > and show it to you as far as that's possible. > > So yeah, you could say that journald will 'ignore' the file. But > journalctl won't, it will show them to you. And that's *good* that > way. That's how it *should* be.
Will journalctl also mention that there is a broken jorunal file? Does it support to "fsck" the journal or to show the not properly referenced data to the admin? Regards Till -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
