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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" | |
| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"> | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | <!-- | |
| 6 | This file is part of systemd. | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
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11 | under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by |
| 12 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or | |
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13 | (at your option) any later version. |
| 14 | ||
| 15 | systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but | |
| 16 | WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 17 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU | |
| 5430f7f2 | 18 | Lesser General Public License for more details. |
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| 5430f7f2 | 20 | You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License |
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21 | along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
| 22 | --> | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | <refentry id="systemd.journal-fields"> | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | <refentryinfo> | |
| 27 | <title>systemd.journal-fields</title> | |
| 28 | <productname>systemd</productname> | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | <authorgroup> | |
| 31 | <author> | |
| 32 | <contrib>Developer</contrib> | |
| 33 | <firstname>Lennart</firstname> | |
| 34 | <surname>Poettering</surname> | |
| 35 | <email>lennart@poettering.net</email> | |
| 36 | </author> | |
| 37 | </authorgroup> | |
| 38 | </refentryinfo> | |
| 39 | ||
| 40 | <refmeta> | |
| 41 | <refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle> | |
| 42 | <manvolnum>7</manvolnum> | |
| 43 | </refmeta> | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | <refnamediv> | |
| 46 | <refname>systemd.journal-fields</refname> | |
| 47 | <refpurpose>Special journal fields</refpurpose> | |
| 48 | </refnamediv> | |
| 49 | ||
| 50 | <refsect1> | |
| 51 | <title>Description</title> | |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | <para>Entries in the journal resemble an environment | |
| 54 | block in their syntax, however with fields that can | |
| 55 | include binary data. Primarily, fields are formatted | |
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56 | UTF-8 text strings, and binary formatting is used only |
| 57 | where formatting as UTF-8 text strings makes little | |
| 58 | sense. New fields may freely be defined by | |
| 59 | applications, but a few fields have special | |
| 60 | meaning. All fields with special meanings are | |
| 61 | optional.</para> | |
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62 | </refsect1> |
| 63 | ||
| 64 | <refsect1> | |
| 65 | <title>User Journal Fields</title> | |
| 66 | ||
| 67 | <para>User fields are fields that are directly passed | |
| 68 | from clients and stored in the journal.</para> | |
| 69 | ||
| 70 | <variablelist> | |
| 71 | <varlistentry> | |
| 72 | <term>MESSAGE=</term> | |
| 73 | <listitem> | |
| 74 | <para>The human readable | |
| 75 | message string for this | |
| 76 | entry. This is supposed to be | |
| 77 | the primary text shown to the | |
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78 | user. It is usually not |
| 79 | translated (but might be in | |
| 80 | some cases), and is not | |
| 81 | supposed to be parsed for meta | |
| 82 | data.</para> | |
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83 | </listitem> |
| 84 | </varlistentry> | |
| 85 | ||
| 86 | <varlistentry> | |
| 87 | <term>MESSAGE_ID=</term> | |
| 88 | <listitem> | |
| 89 | <para>A 128bit message | |
| 90 | identifier ID for recognizing | |
| 91 | certain message types, if this | |
| 92 | is desirable. This should | |
| 93 | contain a 128bit id formatted | |
| 94 | as lower-case hexadecimal | |
| 95 | string, without any separating | |
| 96 | dashes or suchlike. This is | |
| 97 | recommended to be a UUID | |
| 98 | compatible ID, but this is not | |
| 99 | enforced, and formatted | |
| 100 | differently. Developers can | |
| 101 | generate a new ID for this | |
| 102 | purpose with | |
| 103 | <command>journalctl | |
| 104 | --new-id</command>.</para> | |
| 105 | </listitem> | |
| 106 | </varlistentry> | |
| 107 | ||
| 108 | <varlistentry> | |
| 109 | <term>PRIORITY=</term> | |
| 110 | <listitem> | |
| 111 | <para>A priority value between | |
| 112 | 0 (<literal>emerg</literal>) | |
| 113 | and 7 | |
| 114 | (<literal>debug</literal>) | |
| 115 | formatted as decimal | |
| 116 | string. This field is | |
| 117 | compatible with syslog's | |
| 118 | priority concept.</para> | |
| 119 | </listitem> | |
| 120 | </varlistentry> | |
| 121 | ||
| 122 | <varlistentry> | |
| 123 | <term>CODE_FILE=</term> | |
| 124 | <term>CODE_LINE=</term> | |
| 125 | <term>CODE_FUNC=</term> | |
| 126 | <listitem> | |
| 127 | <para>The code location | |
| 128 | generating this message, if | |
| 129 | known. Contains the source | |
| 130 | file name, the line number and | |
| 131 | the function name.</para> | |
| 132 | </listitem> | |
| 133 | </varlistentry> | |
| 134 | ||
| 135 | <varlistentry> | |
| 136 | <term>SYSLOG_FACILITY=</term> | |
| 137 | <term>SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=</term> | |
| 138 | <term>SYSLOG_PID=</term> | |
| 139 | <listitem> | |
| 140 | <para>Syslog compatibility | |
| 141 | fields containing the facility | |
| 142 | (formatted as decimal string), | |
| 143 | the identifier string | |
| 144 | (i.e. "tag"), and the client | |
| 145 | PID.</para> | |
| 146 | </listitem> | |
| 147 | ||
| 148 | </varlistentry> | |
| 149 | </variablelist> | |
| 150 | </refsect1> | |
| 151 | ||
| 152 | <refsect1> | |
| 153 | <title>Trusted Journal Fields</title> | |
| 154 | ||
| 155 | <para>Fields prefixed with an underscore are trusted | |
| 156 | fields, i.e. fields that are implicitly added by the | |
| 157 | journal and cannot be altered by client code.</para> | |
| 158 | ||
| 159 | <variablelist> | |
| 160 | <varlistentry> | |
| 161 | <term>_PID=</term> | |
| 162 | <term>_UID=</term> | |
| 163 | <term>_GID=</term> | |
| 164 | <listitem> | |
| 165 | <para>The process, user and | |
| 166 | group ID of the process the | |
| 167 | journal entry originates from | |
| 168 | formatted as decimal | |
| 169 | string.</para> | |
| 170 | </listitem> | |
| 171 | </varlistentry> | |
| 172 | ||
| 173 | <varlistentry> | |
| 174 | <term>_COMM=</term> | |
| 175 | <term>_EXE=</term> | |
| 176 | <term>_CMDLINE=</term> | |
| 177 | <listitem> | |
| 178 | <para>The name, the executable | |
| 179 | path and the command line of | |
| 180 | the process the journal entry | |
| 181 | originates from.</para> | |
| 182 | </listitem> | |
| 183 | </varlistentry> | |
| 184 | ||
| 185 | <varlistentry> | |
| 186 | <term>_AUDIT_SESSION=</term> | |
| 187 | <term>_AUDIT_LOGINUID=</term> | |
| 188 | <listitem> | |
| 189 | <para>The session and login | |
| 190 | UID of the process the journal | |
| 191 | entry originates from, as | |
| 192 | maintained by the kernel audit | |
| 193 | subsystem.</para> | |
| 194 | </listitem> | |
| 195 | </varlistentry> | |
| 196 | ||
| 197 | <varlistentry> | |
| 198 | <term>_SYSTEMD_CGROUP=</term> | |
| 199 | <term>_SYSTEMD_SESSION=</term> | |
| 200 | <term>_SYSTEMD_UNIT=</term> | |
| 201 | <term>_SYSTEMD_OWNER_UID=</term> | |
| 202 | ||
| 203 | <listitem> | |
| 204 | <para>The contol group path in | |
| 205 | the systemd hierarchy, the | |
| 206 | systemd session ID (if any), | |
| 207 | the systemd unit name (if any) | |
| 208 | and the owner UID of the | |
| 209 | systemd session (if any) of | |
| 210 | the process the journal entry | |
| 211 | originates from.</para> | |
| 212 | </listitem> | |
| 213 | </varlistentry> | |
| 214 | ||
| 215 | <varlistentry> | |
| 216 | <term>_SELINUX_CONTEXT=</term> | |
| 217 | <listitem> | |
| 218 | <para>The SELinux security | |
| 219 | context of the process the | |
| 220 | journal entry originates | |
| 221 | from.</para> | |
| 222 | </listitem> | |
| 223 | </varlistentry> | |
| 224 | ||
| 225 | <varlistentry> | |
| 226 | <term>_SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=</term> | |
| 227 | <listitem> | |
| 228 | <para>The earliest trusted | |
| 229 | timestamp of the message, if | |
| 230 | any is known that is different | |
| 231 | from the reception time of the | |
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232 | journal. This is the time in |
| 233 | usec since the epoch UTC | |
| 234 | formatted as decimal | |
| 235 | string.</para> | |
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236 | </listitem> |
| 237 | </varlistentry> | |
| 238 | ||
| 239 | <varlistentry> | |
| 240 | <term>_BOOT_ID=</term> | |
| 241 | <listitem> | |
| 242 | <para>The kernel boot ID for | |
| 243 | the boot the message was | |
| 244 | generated in, formatted as | |
| 245 | 128bit hexadecimal | |
| 246 | string.</para> | |
| 247 | </listitem> | |
| 248 | </varlistentry> | |
| 249 | ||
| 250 | <varlistentry> | |
| 251 | <term>_MACHINE_ID=</term> | |
| 252 | <listitem> | |
| 253 | <para>The machine ID of the | |
| 254 | originating host, as available | |
| 255 | in | |
| 256 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para> | |
| 257 | </listitem> | |
| 258 | </varlistentry> | |
| 259 | ||
| 260 | <varlistentry> | |
| 261 | <term>_HOSTNAME=</term> | |
| 262 | <listitem> | |
| 263 | <para>The name of the | |
| 264 | originating host.</para> | |
| 265 | </listitem> | |
| 266 | </varlistentry> | |
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267 | |
| 268 | <varlistentry> | |
| 269 | <term>_TRANSPORT=</term> | |
| 270 | <listitem> | |
| 271 | <para>How the entry was | |
| 272 | received by the journal | |
| 273 | service. One of | |
| 274 | <literal>driver</literal>, | |
| 275 | <literal>syslog</literal>, | |
| 276 | <literal>journal</literal>, | |
| 277 | <literal>stdout</literal>, | |
| 278 | <literal>kernel</literal> for | |
| 279 | internally generated messages, | |
| 280 | for those received via the | |
| 281 | local syslog socket with the | |
| 282 | syslog protocol, for those | |
| 283 | received via the native | |
| 284 | journal protocol, for the | |
| 285 | those read from a services' | |
| 286 | standard output or error | |
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287 | output, and for those read |
| 288 | from the kernel, resp. | |
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289 | </para> |
| 290 | </listitem> | |
| 291 | </varlistentry> | |
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292 | </variablelist> |
| 293 | </refsect1> | |
| 294 | ||
| 295 | <refsect1> | |
| 296 | <title>Address Fields</title> | |
| 297 | ||
| 298 | <para>During serialization into external formats the | |
| 299 | addresses of journal entries are serialized into | |
| 300 | fields prefixed with double underscores. Note that | |
| 301 | these aren't proper fields when stored in the journal, | |
| 302 | but addressing meta data of entries.</para> | |
| 303 | ||
| 304 | <variablelist> | |
| 305 | <varlistentry> | |
| 306 | <term>__CURSOR=</term> | |
| 307 | <listitem> | |
| 308 | <para>The cursor for the | |
| 309 | entry. A cursor is an opaque | |
| 310 | text string that uniquely | |
| 311 | describes the position of an | |
| 312 | entry in the journal and is | |
| 313 | portable across machines, | |
| 314 | platforms and journal | |
| 315 | files.</para> | |
| 316 | </listitem> | |
| 317 | </varlistentry> | |
| 318 | ||
| 319 | <varlistentry> | |
| 320 | <term>__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=</term> | |
| 321 | <listitem> | |
| 322 | <para>The wallclock time | |
| 323 | (CLOCK_REALTIME) at the point | |
| 324 | in time the entry was received | |
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325 | by the journal, in usec since |
| 326 | the epoch UTC formatted as | |
| 327 | decimal string. This has | |
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328 | different properties from |
| 329 | <literal>_SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=</literal> | |
| 330 | as it is usually a bit later | |
| 331 | but more likely to be | |
| 332 | monotonic.</para> | |
| 333 | </listitem> | |
| 334 | </varlistentry> | |
| 335 | ||
| 336 | <varlistentry> | |
| 337 | <term>__MONOTONIC_TIMESTAMP=</term> | |
| 338 | <listitem> | |
| 339 | <para>The monotonic time | |
| 340 | (CLOCK_MONOTONIC) at the point | |
| 341 | in time the entry was received | |
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342 | by the journal in usec |
| 343 | formatted as decimal | |
| 344 | string. To be useful as an | |
| 345 | address for the entry this | |
| 346 | should be combined with with | |
| 347 | boot ID in | |
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348 | <literal>_BOOT_ID=</literal>.</para> |
| 349 | </listitem> | |
| 350 | </varlistentry> | |
| 351 | </variablelist> | |
| 352 | </refsect1> | |
| 353 | ||
| 354 | <refsect1> | |
| 355 | <title>See Also</title> | |
| 356 | <para> | |
| 357 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, | |
| 358 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, | |
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359 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, |
| 360 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-journal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> | |
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361 | </para> |
| 362 | </refsect1> | |
| 363 | ||
| 364 | </refentry> |