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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2018-03-23 14:27:48 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2018-03-24 14:22:42 +0100
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man: add an additional note about journalctl -u
Fixes #5387. I kept the _SYSTEMD_UNIT= example because it is easy to understand and not very verbose. _SYSTEMD_CGROUP has much longer entries which do not fit well in the narrow man page. Instead, I added an explanation of what -u is translated into.
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml
index 39c8c07d6b..be2916c0c1 100644
--- a/man/journalctl.xml
+++ b/man/journalctl.xml
@@ -930,7 +930,8 @@
<para>With one match specified, all entries with a field matching
the expression are shown:</para>
- <programlisting>journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=avahi-daemon.service</programlisting>
+ <programlisting>journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=avahi-daemon.service
+journalctl _SYSTEMD_CGROUP=/user.slice/user-42.slice/session-c1.scope</programlisting>
<para>If two different fields are matched, only entries matching
both expressions at the same time are shown:</para>
@@ -950,6 +951,19 @@
<programlisting>journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=avahi-daemon.service _PID=28097 + _SYSTEMD_UNIT=dbus.service</programlisting>
+ <para>To show all fields emited <emphasis>by</emphasis> a unit and <emphasis>about</emphasis>
+ the unit, option <option>-u</option>/<option>--unit=</option> should be used.
+ <command>journalctl -u <replaceable>name</replaceable></command>
+ expands to a complex filter similar to
+ <programlisting>_SYSTEMD_UNIT=<replaceable>name</replaceable>.service
+ + UNIT=<replaceable>name</replaceable>.service _PID=1
+ + OBJECT_SYSTEMD_UNIT=<replaceable>name</replaceable>.service _UID=0
+ + COREDUMP_UNIT=<replaceable>name</replaceable>.service _UID=0 MESSAGE_ID=fc2e22bc6ee647b6b90729ab34a250b1
+ </programlisting>
+ (see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ for an explanation of those patterns).
+ </para>
+
<para>Show all logs generated by the D-Bus executable:</para>
<programlisting>journalctl /usr/bin/dbus-daemon</programlisting>