<literal>_KERNEL_DEVICE=</literal> match for the
device.</para>
- <para>Additional contraints may be added using options
+ <para>Additional constraints may be added using options
<option>--boot</option>, <option>--unit=</option>,
- etc, to futher limit what entries will be shown
+ etc, to further limit what entries will be shown
(logical AND).</para>
<para>Output is interleaved from all accessible
<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.
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
+ with some other numeric value while
+ <option>-nall</option> will disable this cap.
+ Note that this option is only supported for the
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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>
</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
<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" />
<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>
+
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