man: document systemd-journal

[elogind.git] / man / journalctl.xml

diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml
index f6e46cfbc737dbcd44c9be5f224666e6f638f645..de02e4e2187a3f6530298c3fdfc8eafdd78f67fc 100644 (file)
--- a/man/journalctl.xml
+++ b/man/journalctl.xml
@@ -8,16 +8,16 @@
   Copyright 2012 Lennart Poettering
 
   systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.
 
   systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
-  General Public License for more details.
+  Lesser General Public License for more details.
 
-  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
   along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 -->
 
@@ -56,10 +56,11 @@
         <refsect1>
                 <title>Description</title>
 
-                <para><command>journalctl</command> may be
-                used to query the contents of the
+                <para><command>journalctl</command> may be used to
+                query the contents of the
                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                journal.</para>
+                journal as written by
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
 
                 <para>If called without parameter will show the full
                 contents of the journal, starting with the oldest
@@ -68,7 +69,9 @@
                 <para>If a match argument is passed the output is
                 filtered accordingly. A match is in the format
                 <literal>FIELD=VALUE</literal>,
-                e.g. <literal>_SYSTEMD_UNIT=httpd.service</literal>.</para>
+                e.g. <literal>_SYSTEMD_UNIT=httpd.service</literal>. See
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                for a list of well-known fields.</para>
 
                 <para>Output is interleaved from all accessible
                 journal files, whether they are rotated or currently
@@ -252,7 +255,9 @@
                 <title>See Also</title>
                 <para>
                         <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>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                 </para>
         </refsect1>