[systemd-devel] Antw: [EXT] Re: journalctl -f after restart of journald

[Ulrich Windl]

>>> Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> schrieb am 19.12.2020 um 13:44
in
Nachricht <20201219124443.GM48346 at gardel-login>:
> On Mo, 30.11.20 12:08, Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni‑regensburg.de)
wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> I just made an "interesting" observation: When running "journalctl
>> ‑f" there is no message when journald restarts, meaning you'll have
>> to restart "journalctl ‑f", too to see any messages after journald
>> has been restarted.
>>
>> Is this the way it is designed?
> 
> Sounds like a bug. But journald typically doesn't restart?

Typical situation: One windows runs "journalctl -f" while another window
performs OS updates.

> 
> Given the old version of systemd you appear to be using, please report
> to your downstream distro. They'll propagate this back to us if this
> is still a problem in current versions.
> 
> Lennart
> 
> ‑‑
> Lennart Poettering, Berlin