F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Mon Jul 15 21:47:38 UTC 2013


On Mon, 15.07.13 16:42, Chris Adams (linux at cmadams.net) wrote:

> Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> said:
> > On Mon, 15.07.13 16:38, Chris Adams (linux at cmadams.net) wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> I assume you mean "arrow key to the right", but that doesn't work when I
> run "journalctl".  I get "No next file" (and "No previous file" for
> left-arrow).

Yes, to the right. You are using less as a pager I presume? Scrolling to
the right certainly works here. Please file a bug against less if it
doesn't for you.

Lennart

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