current debian no longer writes to syslog 😦

if you look in /var/log, someone left a README file.

the README says "you are looking for logs? but you cannot find them?" and continues in broken english, smugly telling you that systemd has made logs obsolete, and you should use "journal cattle" to ask politely for your own logs.

[did you just tell me to fuck off, jim?]

if you run journal cattle, it shows a page of syslog from april. if you hit G to go to the end, it hangs forever.

[slow clap]

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One-page cheat sheet for the Linux journalctl command. Targeted at DFIR professionals.

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@hal_pomeranz i bet that would be useful for people who want to use journalctl instead of less
@robey I’m as much against systemd scope creep as the next person, but the systemd journal is actually a significant improvement over traditional syslog style logs.
@hal_pomeranz my favorite significant improvement is about to turn 7: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2460#issuecomment-2408617734
Showing status of service via systemctl is slow (>10s) if disk journal is used · Issue #2460 · systemd/systemd

With big (4GB, few months of logs) on-disk journal, systemctl status service becomes very slow (!) [13:37:30]:/var/log/journal☠ time systemctl status nginx * nginx.service - A high performance web ...

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