Manipulating journalctl output

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Fri Jan 3 01:07:13 UTC 2014


Hi Frank,

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:15:38AM +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 20:57:38 +0100
> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 1. If your journal size is large, piping to grep is quite a bit slow.
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journald.service.html
> SIGUSR2 ## crontab -e weekly rotate (or your preference), 
> help keep it manageable

This is very interesting, I would love to use that.  But I don't think I
understand how.  What do I put in the crontab, how do I send this
SIGUSR2 signal to journald?

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Suvayu

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