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title="NEW --- - journalctl doesn't follow empty logs in verbose modes but exits with an error message"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56459">56459</a>
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<td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>journalctl doesn't follow empty logs in verbose modes but exits with an error message
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<td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>felix.spammagnet@nurfuerspam.de
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>x86-64 (AMD64)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Component</th>
<td>general
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<td>systemd
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<pre>Hello,
I'm running systemd-195 on ArchLinux. When starting journalctl in a verbose
follow mode on an empty log it immediately exits with an error message:
$ journalctl -o verbose -f _EXE=/quiet/binary
-- Logs begin at Wed, 2012-10-24 06:32:32 CEST. --
Failed to get realtime timestamp: Cannot assign requested address
Since the given binary could be a daemon that's currently not running but is
going to be started later, I would expect journalctl to wait for messages to
appear (as specified in the manual).
Note that the expected behaviour is achieved in the "short" and
"short-monotonic" output modes. Using another output mode results in the above
error message.
Cheers,
Felix</pre>
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