On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 08:30:22AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > Text logs can be read with any of half a dozen or so commands in my > > path. They can be read with busybox. They can be read on systems > > lacking Systemd. They can be read on other operating systems. > > tomás writes: > > I'd bet that any of those are using the sd_journal programming > > interface, thus link to libsystemd0. > > Why would simple editors such as nano use that interface? It has > nothing to do with text files. Busybox depends only on libc6. > Busybox-static depends on nothing. libsystemd0 is not present on > Devuan, FreeBSD, or Microsoft Windows. All of the above can be used to > read text files. Which ones can read systemd journals?
I'll take your word that nano can view systemd journal files (although I haven't checked). But I can't believe they have an own, independent implementation until I see it. Same for busybox. Cheers -- t
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