The example use of logger --journald in the man page has a couple of flaws:
- It's missing a "MESSAGE=" field. This is supposed to be the primary
human readable text. Without it the log entry is invisible in a
plain "journalctl" output.
- The MESSAGE_ID is supposed to be a 128-bit hexadecimal string that
globally uniquely identifies the message type.
One can generate such an id with "journalctl --new-id".
This patches fixes the above and also changes the example to use a
here-document instead of printf. In my opinion it makes the expected
multi-line data format more obvious.
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
makes finding entries easy. Examples:
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.nf
-\fB printf \(dq%s\\n%s\\n%s\\n\(dq MESSAGE_ID=42 DOGS=bark \(dqCARAVAN=goes on\(dq | logger --journald
+\fB logger --journald <<end
+\fB MESSAGE_ID=67feb6ffbaf24c5cbec13c008dd72309
+\fB MESSAGE=The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
+\fB DOGS=bark
+\fB CARAVAN=goes on
+\fB end
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\fB logger --journald=entry.txt
.fi
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