along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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-<refentry id="journalctl">
+<refentry id="journalctl"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>journalctl</title>
field, then they are automatically matched as
alternatives, i.e. the resulting output will show
entries matching any of the specified matches for the
- same field. Finally, if the character
- <literal>+</literal> appears as a separate word on the
- command line, all matches before and after are combined
- in a disjunction (i.e. logical OR).</para>
+ same field. Finally, the character
+ <literal>+</literal> may appears as a separate word
+ between other terms on the command line. This causes
+ all matches before and after to be combined in a
+ disjunction (i.e. logical OR).</para>
<para>As shortcuts for a few types of field/value
matches, file paths may be specified. If a file path
<literal>_KERNEL_DEVICE=</literal> match for the
device.</para>
+ <para>Additional constraints may be added using options
+ <option>--boot</option>, <option>--unit=</option>,
+ etc, to further limit what entries will be shown
+ (logical AND).</para>
+
<para>Output is interleaved from all accessible
journal files, whether they are rotated or currently
being written, and regardless of whether they belong to the
system itself or are accessible user journals.</para>
+ <para>The set of journal files which will be used
+ can be modified using the <option>--user</option>,
+ <option>--system</option>, <option>--directory</option>,
+ and <option>--file</option> options, see below.</para>
+
<para>All users are granted access to their private
per-user journals. However, by default, only root and
users who are members of the <literal>systemd-journal</literal>
<option>--no-pager</option> option and the "Environment"
section below.</para>
- <para>When outputing to a tty, lines are colored
+ <para>When outputting to a tty, lines are colored
according to priority: lines of level ERROR and higher
are colored red; lines of level NOTICE and higher are
highlighted; other lines are displayed normally.
<para>The following options are understood:</para>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-h</option></term>
- <term><option>--help</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Prints a short help
- text and exits.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--version</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Prints a short version
- string and exits.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--no-pager</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Do not pipe output into a
- pager.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--no-full</option></term>
<term><option>--full</option></term>
that the pager will not buffer logs of
unbounded size. This may be overridden
with an explicit <option>-n</option>
- with some other numeric value on the
- command line. Note that this option is
- only supported for the
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>less</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ with some other numeric value while
+ <option>-nall</option> will disable this cap.
+ Note that this option is only supported for the
+ <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>less</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
pager.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
journal events and limit the number of
events shown. If
<option>--follow</option> is used,
- this option is implied. The argument,
- a positive integer, is optional, and
- defaults to 10. </para></listitem>
+ this option is implied. The argument is
+ a positive integer or <literal>all</literal>
+ to disable line limiting. The default value is
+ 10 if no argument is given.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
terse output, only
showing the actual
message of each journal
- entry with no meta data,
+ entry with no metadata,
not even a timestamp.
</para>
</listitem>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--utc</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Express time in Coordinated Universal
+ Time (UTC).</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-x</option></term>
<term><option>--catalog</option></term>
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-t</option></term>
+ <term><option>--identifier=<replaceable>SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER</replaceable>|<replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable></option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Show messages for the
+ specified syslog identifier
+ <replaceable>SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER</replaceable>, or
+ for any of the messages with a <literal>SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER</literal>
+ matched by <replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>.</para>
+
+ <para>This parameter can be specified
+ multiple times.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-u</option></term>
<term><option>--unit=<replaceable>UNIT</replaceable>|<replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem><para>Show messages for the
specified systemd unit
- <replaceable>UNIT</replaceable>, or
- for any of the units matched by
+ <replaceable>UNIT</replaceable> (such
+ as a service unit), or for any of the
+ units matched by
<replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable>.
If a pattern is specified, a list of
unit names found in the journal is
compared with the specified pattern
and all that match are used. For each
- unit name a match is added for
+ unit name, a match is added for
messages from the unit
- (<literal>_SYSTEMD_UNIT=<replaceable>UNIT</replaceable></literal>)
+ (<literal>_SYSTEMD_UNIT=<replaceable>UNIT</replaceable></literal>),
along with additional matches for
messages from systemd and messages
about coredumps for the specified
unit.</para>
<para>This parameter can be specified
- multiple times. </para></listitem>
+ multiple times.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
the form FROM..TO. The log levels are
the usual syslog log levels as
documented in
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
i.e. <literal>emerg</literal> (0),
<literal>alert</literal> (1),
<literal>crit</literal> (2),
<term><option>--disk-usage</option></term>
<listitem><para>Shows the current disk
- usage of all
- journal files.</para></listitem>
+ usage of all journal files. This shows
+ the sum of the disk usage of all
+ archived and active journal
+ files.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--vacuum-size=</option></term>
+ <term><option>--vacuum-time=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Removes archived
+ journal files until the disk space
+ they use falls below the specified
+ size (specified with the usual K, M,
+ G, T suffixes), or all journal files
+ contain no data older than the
+ specified timespan (specified with the
+ usual s, min, h, days, months, weeks,
+ years suffixes). Note that running
+ <option>--vacuum-size=</option> has
+ only indirect effect on the output
+ shown by <option>--disk-usage</option>
+ as the latter includes active journal
+ files, while the former only operates
+ on archived journal
+ files. <option>--vacuum-size=</option>
+ and <option>--vacuum-time=</option>
+ may be combined in a single invocation
+ to enforce both a size and time limit
+ on the archived journal
+ files.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
operation.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--flush</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Asks the Journal
+ daemon to flush any log data stored in
+ <filename>/run/log/journal</filename>
+ into
+ <filename>/var/log/journal</filename>,
+ if persistent storage is enabled. This
+ call does not return until the
+ operation is
+ complete.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-pager" />
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
failure code is returned.</para>
</refsect1>
- <refsect1>
- <title>Environment</title>
-
- <variablelist class='environment-variables'>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_PAGER</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Pager to use when
- <option>--no-pager</option> is not given;
- overrides <varname>$PAGER</varname>. Setting
- this to an empty string or the value
- <literal>cat</literal> is equivalent to passing
- <option>--no-pager</option>.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </refsect1>
+ <xi:include href="less-variables.xml" />
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<programlisting>journalctl -k -b -1</programlisting>
+ <para>Show a live log display from a system service <filename>apache.service</filename>:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>journalctl -f -u apache</programlisting>
+
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>coredumpctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
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