F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog
Chris Adams
linux at cmadams.net
Mon Jul 15 21:38:29 UTC 2013
Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> said:
> On Mon, 15.07.13 16:31, Chris Adams (linux at cmadams.net) wrote:
>
> > Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> said:
> > > (also: journalctl doesn't truncate lines when doing auto-paging)
> >
> > It most certainly does, at least on an up-to-date F18 system. The
> > truncation behavior is even DIFFERENT between "journalctl" and
> > "journalctl -f" modes!
>
> Well, "journalctl -f" dosn't do auto-paging. "journalctl" (without -f)
> does. So here you go.
And, despite your statement to the contrary, "journalctl" (without -f)
does truncate long lines. The difference is that "journalctl" just
chops them off, while "journalctl -f" does the nutty "chop characters
columns-4 to linelength-1 and replace them with dots" bit.
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Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>
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