On 12/19/2016 11:40 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I'm hoping the discussion can stick to help understand what benefits journald and its binary logs brings to the table.
Well, here are some illustrations of things that are remarkable easy with journalctl but would be difficult with syslog. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-journalctl-to-vi... https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-journalctl-to-vi... Under https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-journalctl-to-vi... there is the example of output in JSON format. This gets back to my point about processing by such tools as PERL. Read in the JSON format as hashes and slice and dice and correlate to your heart's content :-) -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org