Package: systemd
Version: 215-5+b1
Tags: patch
The output of journalctl --help says this:
--since=DATE Start showing entries on or newer than the specified date
--until=DATE Stop showing entries on or older than the specified date
This is a little bit confusing. In fact, because of the "on or older"
part I believed that the meaning of --until was like this:
--until=DATE Only show entries on or older than the specified date
However, I have verified that the real meaning, which fortunately
matches the current behaviour, is this one:
--until=DATE Only show entries *older* than the specified date
I say "fortunately" because this is the behaviour that will allow a
tool like logcheck to track easily the logs that have been checked and
the ones that have not (because the "since" is inclusive and the
"until" is exclusive, much like python's range)
Therefore, if the phrase for the --until option starts with the word "Stop",
then it should be like this:
--until=DATE Stop showing entries on or *newer* than the specified
date
Patch follows:
diff --git a/src/journal/journalctl.c b/src/journal/journalctl.c
index 86453e6..a1bb466 100644
--- a/src/journal/journalctl.c
+++ b/src/journal/journalctl.c
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static int help(void) {
" --user Show only the user journal for the
current user\n"
" -M --machine=CONTAINER Operate on local container\n"
" --since=DATE Start showing entries on or newer
than the specified date\n"
- " --until=DATE Stop showing entries on or older
than the specified date\n"
+ " --until=DATE Stop showing entries on or newer
than the specified date\n"
" -c --cursor=CURSOR Start showing entries from the
specified cursor\n"
" --after-cursor=CURSOR Start showing entries from after
the specified cursor\n"
" --show-cursor Print the cursor after all the
entries\n"
Thanks a lot.
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