On 12/31/2013 01:20 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:Not always. As an example, I'm getting error messages at boot time on my laptop about [sdb] even though there isn't one. Locating them with journalctl would require me to know exactly what field to look for,
Your proposal is irrelevant when we are talking about current reality.
journalctl is not a requirement to read logs. It is just far more easier
than grepping through /var/log/messages for the common use cases.