<story><title>The bad side of systemd: two recent systemd failures</title><url>http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdCrashAndMore</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>XorNot</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t speak to the first problem, but the second is more of &amp;quot;this is strange and I don&amp;#x27;t care to learn how it works&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;journalctl --no-pager&lt;p&gt;Problem solved. I mean, you have the command, it&amp;#x27;s right there in the usage text. Which, awesomely, does invoke a pager when you do journalctl --help so if you&amp;#x27;re stuck on a 80x25 console (as you might be on a broken system) you can easily actually read the help options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mister_Snuggles</author><text>I found that when the output is piped it doesn&amp;#x27;t invoke the pager.  This seems reasonable to me.&lt;p&gt;What doesn&amp;#x27;t seem reasonable is the truncation behaviour.  When the output isn&amp;#x27;t piped, it gets truncated to the width of my terminal.  When the output is piped, it gets truncated to 80 columns.  I&amp;#x27;d expect no truncation when the output is not a terminal.&lt;p&gt;This is an outdated systemd though (I installed it on a Rasberry Pi  [Raspbian] in order to play with it), so this may have changed.</text></comment>
<story><title>The bad side of systemd: two recent systemd failures</title><url>http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdCrashAndMore</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>XorNot</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t speak to the first problem, but the second is more of &amp;quot;this is strange and I don&amp;#x27;t care to learn how it works&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;journalctl --no-pager&lt;p&gt;Problem solved. I mean, you have the command, it&amp;#x27;s right there in the usage text. Which, awesomely, does invoke a pager when you do journalctl --help so if you&amp;#x27;re stuck on a 80x25 console (as you might be on a broken system) you can easily actually read the help options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeremy7600</author><text>&amp;quot;In the grand systemd tradition, there is no option to control this; all you can do is force journalctl to not use a pager or work out how to change things inside the pager to not do this.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;He mentioned that. So, yes, it looks like he cared to learn how it works.</text></comment>