The "Devuan" Debian fork and the fuss about systemd

Posted Nov 29, 2014 14:20 UTC (Sat) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: The "Devuan" Debian fork and the fuss about systemd by misc
Parent article: The "Devuan" Debian fork

> Also, what you are looking for is "journalctl -f", I guess.

I'd say "journalctl -fa" is a better answer. Using just "journalctl -f" truncates log lines to fit the screen; "journalctl -fa" displays them untruncated and without filtering unprintable characters, just like "tail -f" would do.

The "Devuan" Debian fork and the fuss about systemd

Posted Nov 30, 2014 18:51 UTC (Sun) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link] (1 responses)

They switched that default some time ago -- lines are now only truncated to fit the screen if you pass "--no-full". There is some more lenient truncation that's still applied (to fields that "contain unprintable characters or are very long", according to the man page); using "-a" disables this lenient truncation. So you can probably get away without using "-a" most of the time.

The "Devuan" Debian fork and the fuss about systemd

Posted Nov 30, 2014 21:06 UTC (Sun) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

> They switched that default some time ago -- lines are now only truncated to fit the screen if you pass "--no-full".

Awesome! That doesn't seem to be the case on this Fedora 20, however... <checks git> Yup, v209, Fedora 20 seems to be using v208.