From: Kruti Pendharkar <kp025370@broadcom.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:13:55 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Collect journalctl output in ascending time order
X-Git-Tag: stable-13.1.0~239
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=147555ed7dd4665c682ed57121a3064e20be2cd5;p=thirdparty%2Fopen-vm-tools.git

Collect journalctl output in ascending time order

Journalctl output should follow the same time-ascending
format as VMware logs.
---

diff --git a/open-vm-tools/scripts/common/vm-support b/open-vm-tools/scripts/common/vm-support
index 5da04850e..5fb69d3b6 100644
--- a/open-vm-tools/scripts/common/vm-support
+++ b/open-vm-tools/scripts/common/vm-support
@@ -194,9 +194,8 @@ addJournalctl()
       return
    fi
    # Limit to 50000 lines per file so it is easier to view in editor
-   # collect newest logs first
    if which journalctl > /dev/null 2>&1 && which split > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
-      journalctl -r --no-pager --since '1 month ago' 2> /dev/null | \
+      journalctl --no-pager --since '1 month ago' 2> /dev/null | \
          split -l 50000 -d - ${OUTPUT_DIR}${journalctlDir}/journalctl.out 2> /dev/null
    fi
 }