On Tue, 23.10.12 20:52, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johan...@gmail.com) wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 06:40 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >The journal currently cannot do this for you, but what it already can is > >split up the journal per-user. This is done by default only for login > >users, (i.e. actual human users), but with the SplitMode= setting in > >journald.conf can be enabled for system users as well, or turned off > >entirely. We could extend this switch to allow other split-up schemes. > > > >But note that the price you pay for interleaving files on display grows > >with the more you split things up (O(n) being n number of files to > >interleave), hence we are a bit conservative here, we don't want to push > >people towards splitting up things too much, unless they have a really > >good reason to. > > If I'm understanding this correctly would it not better > simply/suffician support splitting the journal up via cli instead of > doing it "real time" ? We might add this as a tool one day, but I think it's a good rule to write logs once, and not touch them afterwrads if at all possible, in order not to corrupt what is already written safely. Hence: it's probably a good idea to focus on writing things the right way the first time, instead of focusing on on rewriting them afterwards. Related to the tool you are suggesting I think a tool to merge split off files might be very useful too, to counter the scalability issues of interleaving too many separate files on display. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel