Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has posted on Mastodon about their upcoming v256 release of Systemd, which is expected to include a sudo replacem...
  • trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    51·
    7 months ago

    How do you get plain-text logs instead of the garbage binary format that journalctl forces on you?

    • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
      14·
      7 months ago

      Set ForwardToSyslog=yes in journald.conf and install a syslog daemon. Also optionally Storage=volatile (I wouldn’t set Storage=none unless you want systemd to no longer show you any logs anywhere including in systemctl status because I assume it will do that)

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      By configuring journald to forward messages to syslog as is the default.

      “forces on you” 🙄

      Edit: Systemd has been around for 14 years. Did you never think to google this?