gene heskett composed on 2023-07-26 18:03 (UTC-0400):
> All the files in /var/log/journal/big hash subdir/* are digital trash,
> mostly $00
> and worthless for any human troubleshooting. What is the big secret all
> about?
That big hash is there for at least one good reason: good tools are built into
journalctl for accessing those binaries, so there's no good reason to dive
directly into their content. e.g., journalctl -b opens the complete log for the
current boot, in a modern pager equivalent to less. If MH doesn't like less, it
only takes a second or so extra to redirect whatever of its content pleases MH
to
>whateverfilenamepleasesMH so MH can open it in whatever text/log file peruser
>he
likes better. Meanwhile you might peruse the journalctl man page to see all the
neat ways to extract subsets of its contents. I don't have to guess which log(S)
to look in when I need something any more since systemd brought us journalctl. I
like that digital blob setup, and I'm only about 2^4 years younger than you.
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