F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jul 15 21:38:57 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:22:43PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> said:
> > This means that you haven't really used journalctl. It *is* much
> > nicer. Try it, and you'll stop wanting to go back to 'less /var/log/messages'
> > and 'tail -f /var/log/*'.
> So I went and tried journalctl, and immediately hit the same UI
> stupidity as systemctl.  Truncated lines, auto-paging, etc., unless I
> pipe to something else.  Significantly differing behavior between direct
> output and pipes is just wrong.  Having to remember some double-dash
> long option just to get non-truncated (and non-useless) log info is
> highly irritating.

What version are you looking at? Current version should not truncate lines.

I think that's now fixed across all systemd commands.


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