F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 15.07.13 16:38, Chris Adams (linux at cmadams.net) wrote:

> 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.

You are aware that you can scroll to the right in "less"? Just press the
arrow key to the left.

Lennart

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