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Being able to boot a server with a 'live USB image'; mount root, and inspect the logs to see what happened are not possible when you got a binary blob for a log
by UI_at_80x24 4y ago
Being able to boot a server with a 'live USB image'; mount root, and inspect the logs to see what happened are not possible when you got a binary blob for a log. When things have really fucked up, you need the 'ease of access that plain-text log files provides.
- fsh 4y agoIf your live USB image is from this decade, it will almost certainly come with journald for reading the logs. If it doesn't, why choose such a bad live USB image?
- cesarb 4y agoJust nitpicking, but AFAIK it's not journald which is used to read the logs, it's journalctl itself which directly reads the binary logs from the filesystem (and the normal filesystem ACL permissions are used to allow or deny reading the logs).
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]