On 22/11/17 08:48, Didier Kryn wrote:
Le 22/11/2017 à 07:19, John Hughes a écrit :
Is there any way to read a file in format X without a program that
reads format X?
The question is why use yet another "proprietary format"? Just to
force people to be use systemd for every task they need to do with
their computer.
Here we go again with the "assume bad faith".
The systemd journal format is not a proprietary format.
The systemd developers have said why they designed the format, but you
think they have conspiratorial reasons for it.
You are not even forced to use systemd to read journald log files, you
can have journalctl on a system not running systemd.
Hell, if you want you can just use strings(1).
strings /run/log/journal/bea434ed778c45fca34c5986c88ac085/system.journal
| grep MESSAGE=
Personally I couldn't give a toss about the format, what's great about
the journal is that it captures everything, especially things that would
get written to the console and lost forever on a sysvinit based system.
The original point was that the problem the bitcoin developers
complained about should have been easy to diagnose if they were using
systemd. Since they weren't then whatever went wrong with their
/etc/rc.local just scrolled off into outer space like the beginning of a
Star Wars film with nobody watching.
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