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> journalctl supports -f, which by your own account you were already using for tail, so I'm not clear what's worse there Yeah, this is a bit of an odd complain

by saghm 3y ago

> journalctl supports -f, which by your own account you were already using for tail, so I'm not clear what's worse there Yeah, this is a bit of an odd complaint. If I were this bothered by having to type those, I'd just make an alias to "journalctl --follow --nopager"` and would have forgotten about it years ago.

stoperaticless 3y ago
Never tried it, but if the complainer wrote: tail -f *.logs Which involves glob’ing. I assume it allows to monitor several services at the same time. Can systemd do that?
- tapoxi 3y ago
  Yes, journalctl -u postgres -u redis -f etc
  - mintplant 3y ago
    Or just `journalctl -f` to follow all logs.
- _flux 3y ago
  It's the basic function what journalctl -f does by default: follow the global log all jobs write into. -u etc are for filtering that.
mdaniel 3y ago
> I'd just make an alias to "journalctl --follow --nopager"` and would have forgotten about it years ago. You sure would have forgotten about it when you tried to get onto another machine without the magic set of aliases I am also prepared for someone to chime in that "log egress tools exist" to move up the Maslow's Hierarchy of Log Needs