Bug#801390: Better defauls/flags for journalctl --since/--until

[Michael Biebl]

Control: tags -1 upstream

Hi

Am 09.10.2015 um 15:26 schrieb Yuri D'Elia:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 227-1
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /bin/journalctl
> 
> journalctl shows the entire output since the beginning of the log.
> This by itself is fine.
> 
> But if you have a persistent journal, and run journalctl in a tty, will
> start/show the entries since the first available entry, which is often not what
> you want.
> 
> I would love to have a "--since today" as a default for interactive usage.

Personally I find -b more useful. And it would mirror more closely how
journalctl behaves with a volatile journal (showing you the log entries
of the current boot).

But we would need a parameter to show all log entries if you don't want
the default behaviour. How would you name that?

So I'm not actually convinced it's a good idea.


> It also turns out that --since/--until are very often necessary when using a
> persistent journal. But there's no short flag for those.
> 
> Please add -S for --since and -U for --until.


Please file this issue upstream at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues

This is where this should be discussed and implemented.

Thanks,
Michael


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