wish I knew how to use the journal, seems like there isn’t any good way to just search the previous session’s logs without a mountain of fuss or having to guess file names
What if I’m on another minimal distro, like Artix, that doesn’t use systemd? Journald is a systemd thing, and I’m not going to install systemd on top of a perfectly good init system.
wish I knew how to use the journal, seems like there isn’t any good way to just search the previous session’s logs without a mountain of fuss or having to guess file names
Check that you actually have persistent storage enabled. (See
man journald.conf
and search forStorage
)Read up on the numerous parameters to journalctl. (
man journalctl
)journalctl --boot -2
will show logs from previous boot.journalctl --since "-2 weeks" --unit=sshd
last two weeks worth of sshd logs.I think there’s a minor mistake in your command.
jounalctl --boot -1
is the previous boot. The counting starts at--boot 0
for the current one.You’re right ofcourse.
What if I’m on another minimal distro, like Artix, that doesn’t use systemd? Journald is a systemd thing, and I’m not going to install systemd on top of a perfectly good init system.