Re: [systemd-devel] Journal rotation and notifying users

2014-05-15 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 14.05.14 13:03, Colin Guthrie (gm...@colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > Hiya, > > I recently had a rather unfortunate crash on my home system. One of the > disks failed and for some reason or another, it logged a lot of data. > > As I don't have *that* much space for journal files (~800Mb) the log

Re: [systemd-devel] Journal rotation and notifying users

2014-05-14 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek at 14/05/14 16:18 did gyre and gimble: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 01:03:28PM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> i.e. perhaps it should include details on when the last rotation occured >> and perhaps why? > Maybe it'd be enough to increase the log level of

Re: [systemd-devel] Journal rotation and notifying users

2014-05-14 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 01:03:28PM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > i.e. perhaps it should include details on when the last rotation occured > and perhaps why? Maybe it'd be enough to increase the log level of the message about logging? And also to make sure that it is logged after rotation. > Or may

[systemd-devel] Journal rotation and notifying users

2014-05-14 Thread Colin Guthrie
Hiya, I recently had a rather unfortunate crash on my home system. One of the disks failed and for some reason or another, it logged a lot of data. As I don't have *that* much space for journal files (~800Mb) the logs rotated and when trying to diagnose the crash I was left with very little infor