On 7/26/23 22:48, Felix Miata wrote:
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.
Chuckle. journalctl -fn500 acts like the old tail, so that is adequately
handled. W/o any filters its certainly a catchall. I also looked at the
whole thing with an eye to finding my digiKam import fail problem. But
in 50000+ lines, digiLam was not mentioned. Several core dumps and
plasmashell/kwin mewling about everything. I use konsole extensively,
and no mention of that either, so apparently I need a new jargon translator.
I left it running to see what it complains about next,
Take care * stay well, Felix.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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