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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Journalktl: A new journald log viewer for KDE
From:       Scott Kitterman <kde () kitterman ! com>
Date:       2015-04-15 22:53:46
Message-ID: 23431155.lccmj8iGuD () kitterma-e6430
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On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 10:46:23 PM Luigi Toscano wrote:
> David Edmundson ha scritto:
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org
> > 
> > <mailto:aacid@kde.org>> wrote:
> >     El Dimecres, 15 d'abril de 2015, a les 15:09:03, Luigi Toscano va 
escriure:
> >     > On Wednesday 15 of April 2015 14:49:16 Ragnar Thomsen wrote:
> >     > > Hey all,
> >     > > 
> >     > > I have started development of a log viewer for journald, which I
> >     > > have
> >     > > tentatively called Journalktl. Currently, it is pretty basic but
> >     > > shows
> >     > > date/time, unit name and log message. It allows for showing
> >     > > journal
> >     > > entries based on boot ID, searching in messages and unit names,
> >     > > and
> >     > > filtering log messages based on priority.
> >     > > 
> >     > > Journalktl can be found here:
> >     > > git://anongit.kde.org/scratch/rthomsen/journalktl.git
> >     
> >     <http://anongit.kde.org/scratch/rthomsen/journalktl.git>
> >     
> >     > > Please give it a try, and let me know what you think :)
> >     > 
> >     > Did you consider extending ksystemlog? A unified interface would be
> >     > nice, I
> >     > think, if it's possible.
> >     
> >     +1
> > 
> > or just replace it.
> > It hasn't been touched since 2009 beyond test fixes and scripty.
> 
> As long as the new program allows access to the text-based log files, sure.
> For sure they are not going to disappear in every scenario, accessing them
> is still useful.

There are all kinds of log files that don't and won't have journald 
replacements, so I don't there is a scenario where they disappear.  journald 
isn't a general syslog replacement.

Scott K

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