On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:48:07AM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Matthias Urlichs <sm...@smurf.noris.de> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > vita...@yourcmc.ru: > >> Because I want logs to be plaintext in my system, not binary. > >> > > Why? (Seriously.) > > To use standard text based tools, eg. grep.
$ journalctl | grep $ journalctl | tail -n 500 Note: above is pretty inefficient. Much quicker to rely on the indexes from journalctl. But it *is* possible. e.g. efficient is: $ journalctl -n 500 $ journalctl -f etc -- Regards, Olav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140211222055.gb29...@bkor.dhs.org
