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title: Jumping into journald
date: 2021-06-06
date: 2021-06-29
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On many Linux systems, systemd-journald runs as a daemon at boot and collects your logs. You can access
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This opens a stream with no stream identifier or unit ID, a default priority of 6 (info), parsing level prefixes enabled, and no forwarding enabled. Then, we send the message "hewwo" with a prefix setting the priority to 4. Note that we use `-U` but not `-u` on netcat since this is a Unix stream socket (analogous to TCP) and not a Unix datagram socket (analogous to UDP).
If you run this you'll get a message in your logs! You can quickly view it with `journalctl -xe`. Note that you won't get the normal extra fields as netcat exits too quickly for journald to grab the data.
#### Overview
## Overview
Anything related to Linux quickly turns into a huge rabbit hole. I could certainly write articles on many of the
## Linux, ..., why?
Anything related to Linux quickly turns into a huge rabbit hole. I could certainly write pages and pages about small things I've barely mentioned here, but I think this is a good place to stop.
This is mostly from my own experimentation. If you have more information and noticed an error, please contact me. I'd be happy to correct anything.