[PLUG] question on looking at systemd log files

[Ben Koenig]

That makes sense. Still seems odd though, if people are just dumping
the binary logs to plain text in order to parse them, why does
journald bother saving them in binary form when it can just use the
existing plain text format? It's like they added an additional step
without any additionall benefit.

To be fair, I'm not a sysadmin of any sort, just curious to know if
the features the systemd team brags about actually end up getting
used. Sounds like that might be a no, and mostly off-topic anyway.
NVM.

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:47 AM Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>
> I assume that a third person could read them in whatever format he read
> them in, which would be dumped-to-text, possibly filtered out, maybe not.
> When I don't know what might be happening, I usually err on the side of
> more logs instead of less.
>
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 17:05 Ben Koenig <techkoenig at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I ask this out of morbid curiosity...
> >
> > How does one read systemd logs on another system? My understanding is
> > that it's a binary format, right? This sounds like it presents some
> > problems for taking a "glance" at the logs in the way Randall is
> > asking, since you have to run journalctl to access them.
> >
> > I'd like to offer my assistance... but unfortunately systemd isn't
> > backwards compatible with existing infrastructure... so I can't
> > actually help. Hmmmm.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 4:37 PM logical american
> > <website.reader3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > My openSuse linux computer, Leap 15.1 stalls while booting up. I enabled
> > > the debug-shell.service under systemd to record the log files, but have
> > > about 6 megs of logged data from one attempted boot up.
> > >
> > > Is there anyone in this group who can glance at the journalctl -b and
> > > dmesg log files and pick out what might have gone wrong, for the system
> > > stalling upon boot? Unfortunately the log files are long, about 27K
> > > lines and 3 megs+ each.
> > >
> > > I would prefer to email you the log file(s) if possible.
> > >
> > > - Randall
> > >
> > >
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