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druck <
news@druck.org.uk> writes:
>
bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
>> There doesn`t seem to be a /var/log/messages, as I`m accustomed
>> to checking, and ISTR Windows used a dedicated application for
>> watching system messages. Is there such a beast in Bookworm?
>
> Unfortunately due an onset of idiocy at Pi towers, starting with
> Bookworm they chose to remove rsyslog and it`s look-at-with-anything
> textual logs,
RPi OS is following its Debian upstream here.
> leaving you with the aberration of journald binary logging and the
> need to learn the incomprehensible incantations of journalctl.
I don?t recognize the description of journalctl as ?incomprehensible
incantations?. It doesn?t seem any more opaque than most basic Unix
commands to me. Comparing old and new:
tail -f /var/log/messages journalctl -f
grep wotsit /var/log/messages journalctl | grep wotsit
or journalctl -g wotsit
less /var/log/messages journalctl
grep kernel: /var/log/messages journalctl -k
You might have to spend a couple of minutes skimming ?journalctl --help?
or some documentation to learn it, but the same was true of tail, grep,
etc; you?ve just already done that and got used to it.
If you really want ?incomprehensible incantations? try ffmpeg.
> Luckily you can readily reinstall the righteous rsyslog package, so it
> works like Linux (and UNIX) is meant to work.
Does ?righteous? indicate that the attachment to syslog is religious
rather than practical?
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