Common GNU/Linux log files - What, where, how (German/English)

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Hi Edgar,
I think you have done well.
I need to try those journalctl commands in my Debian.
Might even learn something

Some points

  1. No english for heading or header of first paragraph
  2. The color for english does work
    That dull purple is ideal… it does not want to stand out too brightly
  3. ‘cat|more’ you mean cat oder more
    I took the | as a pipe
  4. No color for english in systemd section?
  5. Need something at the beginning saying that there are 2 sections to the document dealing with the two approaches to keeping logfiles … text or journal
  6. how does a user look and see whether their Linux has journal or text files? I have seen one system that had both?
  7. There was a debate with Daniel and myself. We ended up agreeing less was safe, easy for beginners, and could search.

I need to test all those journalctl statements . It will take a day or so.
Will get back to you.

Regards
Neville

In my Solus there is a README file in /var/log

nevj@trinity /var/log $ cat README
You are looking for the traditional text log files in /var/log, and they are
gone?

Here's an explanation on what's going on:

You are running a systemd-based OS where traditional syslog has been replaced
with the Journal. The journal stores the same (and more) information as classic
syslog. To make use of the journal and access the collected log data simply
invoke "journalctl", which will output the logs in the identical text-based
format the syslog files in /var/log used to be. For further details, please
refer to journalctl(1).

Alternatively, consider installing one of the traditional syslog
implementations available for your distribution, which will generate the
classic log files for you. Syslog implementations such as syslog-ng or rsyslog
may be installed side-by-side with the journal and will continue to function
the way they always did.

Thank you!

Further reading:
        man:journalctl(1)
        man:systemd-journald.service(8)
        man:journald.conf(5)
        http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-journal.html
nevj@trinity /var/log $ 

At least they were polite about it
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