Hiya, A colleague pointed out an oddity in journalctl --since today --follow output.
It seems the two arguments somewhat contradict each other: one asks for all the output for today and the other asks for all future messages, but using them together should obviously behave in a somewhat sensible way! What I was expecting was basically the same as what journalctl --follow would produce, but excluding any output not from today. e.g. if the first 5 lines of a standard journalctl -f happened to be from yesterday, then I'd expect only the 5 lines from today to be printed and then any further output as it happens. What appears to happen instead is that you get the first 10 lines from the day (i.e. after midnight) and then *all* lines from today following that after a small delay (likely not a deliberate delay - just whatever overhead it takes to lookup and output the data), thus taking quite some time to page through which is definitely not what you expect from --follow, but arguably what you would expect from --since today. It's only the delay before full output that makes this very much feel like a bug rather than intentional (i.e. --since having a higher precedence than --follow's 10 line limit!) This is with a recent version of the 208-stable branch. Can someone confirm is this is still a problem in more recent versions? Cheers Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
