commit acab86fd56d223faa8a55decdd6d4fa60fbcd7e3
Author: Pete Travis <immanetize(a)fedoraproject.org>
Date: Sat Oct 19 19:09:58 2013 -0600
syslogd is gone, here are some sample journalctl invocations.
en-US/System_Daemons.xml | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/System_Daemons.xml b/en-US/System_Daemons.xml
index d83d524..a7ffeb6 100644
--- a/en-US/System_Daemons.xml
+++ b/en-US/System_Daemons.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,52 @@
<section>
<title>System Daemons</title>
+ <section id="system_daemons-nosyslog">
+ <title>Syslog removed from default installation</title>
+ <para>
+ <application>syslog</application> is no longer included in default
installations. <systemitem>journald</systemitem> logging serves most use cases
as well as, or better than, <systemitem>syslogd</systemitem>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Users accustomed to checking <filename>/var/log/messages</filename> for
system logs should instead use <command>journalctl</command>.
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <title>journalctl command examples</title>
+ <segtitle>new journalctl</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>old messages</segtitle>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>
+ <command>jouralctl</command>
+ </seg>
+ <seg>
+ <command>less /var/log/messages</command>
+ </seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>
+ <command>journalctl -f</command>
+ </seg>
+ <seg>
+ <command>tail -f /var/log/messages</command>
+ </seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>
+ <command>journalctl --unit named.service</command>
+ </seg>
+ <seg>
+ <command>grep named /var/log/messages</command>
+ </seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>
+ <command>journalctl -b</command>
+ </seg>
+ <seg>
+ Shows logs from current boot, no simple equivalent.
+ </seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+ </para>
+ </section>
<section>
<title>systemd</title>
<indexterm><primary>systemd</primary></indexterm>
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