NO TO SYSVINIT - or initscripts, rather!

Posted Nov 2, 2018 20:56 UTC (Fri) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452)
In reply to: NO TO SYSVINIT - or initscripts, rather! by xtifr
Parent article: Init system support in Debian

> "I hate binary log files" is one of the few complaints I've heard

I have no idea how could I have lived without journalctl --since '5 minutes ago'.

Posted Nov 2, 2018 21:50 UTC (Fri) by jccleaver (guest, #127418) [Link] (2 responses)

> I have no idea how could I have lived without journalctl --since '5 minutes ago'.

tail -200 /var/log/messages ?

(and maybe adjust your number if you guessed your log velocity wrong)

Posted Nov 2, 2018 23:39 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Won't list logs that live in their own files.

Posted Nov 5, 2018 11:57 UTC (Mon) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

Not really comparable I'm afraid