F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[Andrew McNabb]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:41:38PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:38:29PM -0500, Chris Adams 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.
> 
> Ooh. Yeah, journalctl -f shouldn't do that. That makes it a lot less useful.

If I'm following the logs with "journalctl -f", I basically only see the
time, hostname, and process name/id.  Pretty much everything else is
truncated.  If I actually need to see the messages, is the Right Way to
do this "journalctl -f |cat"?

I wouldn't mind having a "-t" option to truncate for the rare situations
where I don't actually want to see log messages, but truncating by
default is frustrating, particularly when resizing the window doesn't
untruncate previously printed lines.

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