On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: > Maybe I could set up some other web-app that (a) looks at the link > pointing to the postfix.service-logs and (b) filters them? > > I could post to the systemd-devel-ml ... btw ;-) >
Seems like there should be a systemd-users mailing list, actually. This sort of situation is completely distro-agnostic. You certainly could design such an application. If you do so I'd consider pulling the journald logs in JSON format. I'd also see if somebody actually has written a journald library/class/etc for your language of choice - it seems like that is the sort of thing that is likely to exist soon if not already. One of the goals journald (and systemd) is to provide more of an API for services so that there is less parsing of text files and communicating via signals/etc. I'm sure with appropriate permissions a process could just obtain log entries via dbus, and using cursors poll for new entries (or maybe there is a push/stream mechanism). Really though it seems like the solution is a generic log monitor with rules for such things, with the monitor utilizing the JSON data from journald for richer metadata/efficiency/accuracy. -- Rich
