From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC1D138A1A for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:53:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB646E0A86; Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:52:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D8AC5E0A63 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77728203EF for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2015 06:52:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 09 Feb 2015 06:52:55 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=x-sasl-enc:message-id:date:from :mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=EMXJekTC1bUbqfK0KXNLfM V55yU=; b=F1bhsaQVVLGlpKlqJyBp6ZHmBHk+HfUPLOP+en9lnjz3+oT8Dqvn/c okL8cUQTyk1wzVymEiZzyMdn9lr4fxeUvi4Vn3tezCJm/IlQTK4S6C3USJu5DNTK iw0WTr8i0zmXBwUqmP4wgv5MyRHuxFhngZ2Omjz1N6xUUge+rbBqo= X-Sasl-enc: peGUFaa2OmZpeZlD8mrkRAtTSTNHezz9yPV/Sroro4LI 1423482775 Received: from [192.168.0.25] (unknown [68.42.243.92]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 010DE680013 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2015 06:52:54 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <54D89F96.3000503@alectenharmsel.com> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 06:52:54 -0500 From: Alec Ten Harmsel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please! References: <20150209094818.GA3218@acm.fritz.box> <54D886B2.3060302@hanft.de> <201502091150.01015.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201502091150.01015.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0f5f26fa-f399-45db-8d8b-b157ea45b735 X-Archives-Hash: 4a40c002beddc12fb3ebbe213b1fda86 On 02/09/2015 06:49 AM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 09 Feb 2015 11:23:15 Rich Freeman wrote: >> You don't have to export them from anything unless you need their >> content in a text file. If you just run "journalctl" that is the >> equivalent of typing cat /var/log/messages. If you do want to parse >> them with an external tool then you get your choice of several text >> formats and json. > The thing is I never use cat. I invariably use less, rview, or grep, to > browse or search the log files. > > How will this work with journalctl, will I have to export them first into a > different format? > You can run `journalctl | grep whatever`. I don't know what rview is, but as long as whatever you're using supports pipes you should be fine.