Writing a third-party journal reader is officially discouraged: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-files/ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Writing a third-party journal reader is officially discouraged: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-files/ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-fil... Instead of implementing your own reader or writer for journal files we ask you to use the Journal's native C API to access these files.