Bug 86874

Summary:	RFE: journalctl: add convenience method to show entries since last service start
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Elias Probst <mail>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	alexandre
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Elias Probst 2014-11-30 12:13:15 UTC

For development/testing reasons, a service might be restarted a lot.

It would be very handy, to have a journalctl parameter which allows to only show entries of the current service runtime (similar to -b for the current system boot, but with the scope reduced from the system to the service runtime).

Currently, this is only possible by manually looking up the time when the service started and then using --since= to filter the ouput.

Having something like -s/--since-start would make this way easier.

Comment 1 Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2014-11-30 14:20:19 UTC

Agreed, that'd be useful.

Comment 2 Alexandre Detiste 2014-12-01 12:36:23 UTC

+1

I tried to do this with 'cursor' options, but it was horribly convoluted;
now my script just send by mail the default overview of the journal as shown by 'systemctl status <service>' & users must SSH in to get the detail.


'journalctl -o cat' still show 'Starting ...' at the top & 'Started ...' at the bottom.
It would be nice if there was a way to hide those, especialy for Type=oneshot services.

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