On Sun, February 16, 2014 22:16, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> oh? I can pipe that output into cat or any any daemon I like? Doesn't >> look like so. > > But it does, you can "cat" with journalctl; it's one of its output > options: > > -o, --output= > cat > generates a very terse output only showing the actual > message of each journal entry with no meta data, not even a timestamp.
As I do not have systemd installed on any machine, I can't check the man-pages. But, if that is the only method to get parseable text from journalctl, then that is less then useless. I would expect an export option providing the same detail level as I currently find in /var/log/messages. A timestamp is a minimum required for logging system output. -- Joost
