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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2013-03-07 21:49:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2013-03-07 21:49:12 +0100 |
| commit | fe59e38bef69568c385d10761132458606cdd896 (patch) | |
| tree | fba5969e43586f09aece79d2bc7b277620ce00ee /man | |
| parent | 2e4015f3e73173a4346c03a1ed7962f7d3423ed2 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-fe59e38bef69568c385d10761132458606cdd896.tar.gz | |
journalctl: imply -n1000 when -e is used
Make sure the pager does not have to buffer an unbounded number of log
messages, by default.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/journalctl.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml index 201f66a3b5..3db5e5dab6 100644 --- a/man/journalctl.xml +++ b/man/journalctl.xml @@ -168,10 +168,14 @@ <listitem><para>Immediately jump to the end of the journal inside the - implied pager tool. Very useful in - combination with the - <option>-b</option> option. Note that - this is only supported for the + implied pager tool. This implies + <option>-n1000</option> to guarantee + that the pager won't buffer logs of + unbounded size. This may be overriden + with an explicit <option>-n</option> + with some other numeric value on the + command line. Note that this option is + only supported for the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>less</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> pager.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> |