On 30/11/2024 03:29, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Now, you might ask why the systemd journal is being preferred and kept over human-readable log files. I don't think anyone on debian-user knows the answer to this.
<https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemctl-journal.html> systemd for Administrators, Part XIII Posted on Fr 18 Mai 2012 Log and Service Status
The original reason we started to work on the journal was one specific feature idea, that to the outsider might appear simple but without the journal is difficult and inefficient to implement: along with the output of systemctl status we wanted to show the last 10 log messages of the daemon.
I could not recall where I saw a more verbose description of design ideas. Perhaps faster selection of records within a given time range.
Journald&journalctl have their shortcomings, but often they are more convenient during debugging: more precise timestamps, filtering by all processes from a service cgroup.
