How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-15 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous bullshit, for another on my two F19 machines systemd-journald occupy significant part of resources (after several days it is often 1.5 to 2.5 GB RAM and several GB on /var/log/journal/*/* filesystem). Then, how I can avoid this cra

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-15 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/15/2013 02:46 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik issued this missive: For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous bullshit, for another on my two F19 machines systemd-journald occupy significant part of resources (after several days it is often 1.5 to 2.5 GB RAM and several GB on

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-15 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 15.11.2013 11:46, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous > bullshit, for another on my two F19 machines systemd-journald occupy > significant part of resources (after several days it is often 1.5 to > 2.5 GB RAM and several GB on /var/log/jo

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-16 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/15/2013 02:46 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik issued this missive: >> For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous >> bullshit, for another on my two F19 machines systemd-journald occupy >> significant part of resources (after several days it is often 1.5 to

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-16 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > On 15.11.2013 11:46, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: >> For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous >> bullshit, for another on my two F19 machines systemd-journald occupy >> significant part of resources (after several days it is often 1.5 to >> 2.5 GB

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-16 Thread Steven Stern
On 11/15/2013 04:46 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous > bullshit, In what way might the logs be hazardous? -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-16 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > I tried delete '/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald', but this may not be > called clean solution. And after that, several services (e.g. sendmail, > dovecot, sshd - what I shortly browse) stop logging via rsyslogd. On > other hand, other

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Steven Stern wrote: > On 11/15/2013 04:46 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: >> For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous >> bullshit, > > In what way might the logs be hazardous? It was mean mainly from administrator view. When things go bad, machine HW/SW fail or any other di

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 17 November 2013, Frantisek Hanzlik sent: > Binary logs, by contrast, may be useless when log file is damaged or I > haven't this one unique utility for reading them. And my experiences > with systems where binary logs are implemented says clearly that > binary logs is bad id

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Patrick Lists
On 11/17/2013 11:21 AM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 17 November 2013, Frantisek Hanzlik sent: >> Binary logs, by contrast, may be useless when log file is damaged or I >> haven't this one unique utility for reading them. And my experiences >> with systems where binary logs are implemented s

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:12:08 +0100 Patrick Lists wrote: > IIRC that's the reason why journald supports encryption. It's not encrypted it's binary, similar to any compiled app or virus. -- Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Patrick Lists
On 11/17/2013 12:16 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:12:08 +0100 > Patrick Lists wrote: > >> IIRC that's the reason why journald supports encryption. > > It's not encrypted it's binary, > similar to any compiled app or virus. I meant the transmission of the log to another log

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:37:03 +0100 Patrick Lists wrote: > > I meant the transmission of the log to another log server. Not the > log itself. Anyway, here is Lennart Poettering's rationale behind > journald: > One of the things you will see after a hard reset is: Journal corrupted, journal dele

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 11/17/2013 11:21 AM, Tim wrote: >> Allegedly, on or about 17 November 2013, Frantisek Hanzlik sent: >>> Binary logs, by contrast, may be useless when log file is damaged or I >>> haven't this one unique utility for reading them. And my ex

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2013/11/17 Frantisek Hanzlik : > Steven Stern wrote: >> On 11/15/2013 04:46 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: >>> For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous >>> bullshit, >> >> In what way might the logs be hazardous? > > It was mean mainly from administrator view. When things go

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: > 2013/11/17 Frantisek Hanzlik : >> Steven Stern wrote: >>> On 11/15/2013 04:46 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous bullshit, >>> >>> In what way might the logs be hazardous? >> >> It was mean mainly from

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/17/2013 12:32 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: I'm convinced it is as similar things on eg. ms windows (binary logs, registry,...) - when is all working fine, then it look fine too. Yes. When there's a major crash, you may not have access to the fancy programs for reading binary logs, espec

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:46:40PM -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/17/2013 12:32 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > >I'm convinced it is as similar things on eg. ms windows (binary logs, > >registry,...) - when is all working fine, then it look fine too. > > Yes. When there's a major crash, you may no

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/17/2013 02:18 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: A GUI for the journal is already being developed. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Logs That's nice, although I'd like to have a CLI reader as well if there isn't one already. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:44:21PM +0100, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > I agree, all systemd stuff seems very crude for me. > And 'enough time' to debug or help to fix systemd monster I really not > have, I even don't have time to report all bugs which happens to me. > Thus I must only wish to systemd

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > That's nice, although I'd like to have a CLI reader as well if there isn't > one already. > There is and it has been mentioned before. Use journalctl. Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-17 Thread Tim
Tim: >> And if logs are in a format that you cannot read, you cannot safely >> submit them to an outside server. You don't know what they contain. >> Logon credentials, confidential data that you're working on, etc. Patrick Lists: > IIRC that's the reason why journald supports encryption. I don't

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Jonas, I have a comment, and a question. On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 03:46:55PM +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: > 2013/11/17 Frantisek Hanzlik : > > > > It was mean mainly from administrator view. When things go bad, > > machine HW/SW fail or any other disasters occurs, logs are very > > valuable.

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > I have been very frustrated with journalctl. The manual page is very > unhelpful in that regard. For example the other day, I wanted to > investigate why my laptop shutdown suddenly (I think it was > overheating), but there was no reasonable w

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:43:57PM +, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Suvayu Ali > wrote: > > > > I have been very frustrated with journalctl. The manual page is very > > unhelpful in that regard. For example the other day, I wanted to > > investigate why my laptop shutdown su

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:43:57PM +, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Suvayu Ali >> wrote: >>> >>> I have been very frustrated with journalctl. The manual page is very >>> unhelpful in that regard. For example the other da

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2013/11/18 Suvayu Ali : > Hi Jonas, > > I have a comment, and a question. > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 03:46:55PM +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: >> The journald log format is documented at least to some extent [1], and >> there exists free software for reading the log. To me, it sounds like >> way m

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
Sorry for posting again so soon and replying to myself, but I just noticed one very useful thing that might help quite much in the specific problem you described: 2013/11/18 Joonas Sarajärvi : > 2013/11/18 Suvayu Ali : >> the other day, I wanted to >> investigate why my laptop shutdown suddenly (I

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Alexander Aguilar Torrico
Oxl El nov 15, 2013 6:46 a.m., "Frantisek Hanzlik" escribió: > For one thing I'm in the conviction that binary logs are hazardous > bullshit, for another on my two F19 machines systemd-journald occupy > significant part of resources (after several days it is often 1.5 to > 2.5 GB RAM and several

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 04:48:32PM +1030, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> And if logs are in a format that you cannot read, you cannot safely > >> submit them to an outside server. You don't know what they contain. > >> Logon credentials, confidential data that you're working on, etc. > > Patrick Lists: >

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 05:29:27PM +, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Suvayu Ali > wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:43:57PM +, Tom H wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Suvayu Ali > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> I have been very frustrated with journalctl. The manu

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 07:31:21PM +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: > 2013/11/18 Suvayu Ali : > > Hi Jonas, > > > > I have a comment, and a question. > > > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 03:46:55PM +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: > >> The journald log format is documented at least to some extent [1], and >

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 07:44:55PM +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: > Sorry for posting again so soon and replying to myself, but I just > noticed one very useful thing that might help quite much in the > specific problem you described: > > 2013/11/18 Joonas Sarajärvi : > > 2013/11/18 Suvayu Ali : >

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-24 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Frank Murphy wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:37:03 +0100 > Patrick Lists wrote: > >> >> I meant the transmission of the log to another log server. Not the >> log itself. Anyway, here is Lennart Poettering's rationale behind >> journald: >> > > One of the things you will see after a hard reset is

Re: How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

2013-11-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > Frank Murphy wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:37:03 +0100 >> Patrick Lists wrote: >>> >>> I meant the transmission of the log to another log server. Not the >>> log itself. Anyway, here is Lennart Poettering's rationale behind >>> journ