On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog >> > We think being able to see the journal message timestamps on console is >> important. A locked up embedded system where we only have the output of >> console would be even more useful if we were to know when things went >> wrong. For this reason, we would like to ask: is it ok if we have such >> feature >> in journald.conf? >> >> The kernel controls this behaviour with the boolean: >> /sys/module/printk/parameters/time >> maybe we could read just that? > > Should we keep the formatting same as kernel then? > > [ 16.380000] systemd-journald[376]: Received request to flush runtime > journal from PID 1 > > Is there a way to get notified when the value of > /sys/module/printk/parameters/time is changed? It might be expensive to read > the value before every forward to console.
I guess it's fine to just read it once at journald startup. It's not really that different from a kernel command line parameter, which cannot changed at runtime. If printk.time is used, the parameter will reflect that. Kay _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
