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Journalctl seems to be ignoring since and until

I'm trying to get the logs of a problem that's been happening for over a week by this point. I'm trying to use journalctl to print the logs but it doesn't seem to give me anything more or less than the past 5 days. I've tried using since/until but…
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centOs : system time getting reset back to UTC after changing it using timedatectl

I have a Centos machine with version 7. I am trying to change the system time using the timedatectl command. The time gets changed but after a few seconds it gets reset back to it's original time. [root@abcd ~]# timedatectl Local time: Tue…
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Volume of Logs created by journalctl/systemd per day?

Is there a way to get the size of logs (in bytes) which journalctl creates per day? Background: we want to get our logs into a central database. But before doing this I would like to have rough estimate how much bytes will get transferred. My…
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journald: extract part of a system journal into the journald format (i.e. for use with journalctl)

I have a situation where it would be really useful to attach the relevant bits of the system logs to a bug ticket. The system in question uses journald and I rather like using journalctl to inspect the logs, so what I'd like to do is extract the…
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unable to query the systemd journal with journalctl

I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.2.GA on following system: # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.1 (Maipo) # uname -a Linux X 3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri May 15 21:38:46 EDT 2015 x86_64…
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How to make journalctl recognize user-defined fields?

Journalctl's manual says: New fields may freely be defined by applications, but a few fields have special meaning. However I don't see a way to actually introduce my own field that journalctl would recognize and allow filter on. I tried many…
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journalctl – Is there any Issue with generating a new Forward Secure Sealing (FSS) Key every 30 Seconds?

Goal Improve Security of the System by sealing the Journal Logs in a shorter Interval. What could be Problems? System Performance? To Much different files were generated, so that I have to set the SystemMaxFiles=100 or the RunMaxFiles=100 to a…
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How to get user logs of certain group with journalctl?

I can filter the logs of a certain user, with journalctl | grep "user111" But I have hundreds of users in dozens of different groups. How to get user logs of certain group with journalctl?
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How do I stop journald from dropping blank lines?

I have an application which logs to stdout in a format like this: incoming request from x.x.x.x client version is 1.2 authenticated as alice@example.com processed 1234 bytes closing connection rejecting connection from y.y.y.y client subnet is not…
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tomcat service getting logs from catalina.out, localhost.log and system.prints into journalctl

I have 2 servers with tomcat installed, one was installed by someone else. Something i noticed about the old one is when I run journalctl -u tomcat.. It shows most of the logs including when an application is deployed/started/restarted/stopped, it…
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strange messages in the systemd journal

I'm running systemd version: systemd 245 (245.4-4ubuntu3.2) +PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN2 -IDN +PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid on…
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Service not logging to journalctl

I have a user service which is placed under /home//.config/systemd/user/.service When I perform systemctl --user status I have the desired output, for example: @:~$ systemctl --user status ●…
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Tail the journalctl log on failure to restart systemd service?

I want to know if there is a brief way to check the last 50 lines about a service that threw an error on restart. $ sudo service nginx restart Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status…
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journalctl stops working randomly after boot on DigitalOcean droplet

I am building servers from a custom image I made using Packer on DigitalOcean, and I'm having a recurring issue where journalctl doesn't have any logs: # journalctl No journal files were found. Sometimes I have this issue with images I build,…
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Journalctl -xe only shows results from February 04

The title says it all. Journalctl -xe worked fine but like a month ago it only showed the results from February 04... If you need any config file just comment. Thanks in advance! /etc/systemd/journald.conf # This file is part of systemd. # # …
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