Bug 985548

Summary: RFE: improve journalctl filtering by _COMM
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John Florian <john>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: johannbg, lnykryn, mschmidt, msekleta, notting, plautrba, systemd-maint, vpavlin, zbyszek
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patch adding _COMM smarts none

Description John Florian 2013-07-17 17:53:43 UTC 
Description of problem:
journalctl would benefit by having a more convenient way to filter by _COMM.  If I want to see a particular python program, I have to use:

  journalctl _COMM=foo

I am proposing a -C option (like ps) which would shorten this to:

  journalctl -C foo

On fedora-devel (circa 2013-07-17 12:19ish EDT), it was mentioned that journalctl can also use:

  journalctl foo

but that isn't useful for all cases, like python scripts where foo could match python, but not the name of the python program itself.  It was also mentioned that perhaps this mechanism just needs to be made smarter to handle such cases.  That would be equally welcome, if not more so.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-204-9.fc19.x86_64
Comment 1 Michal Schmidt 2013-07-19 06:46:48 UTC 
For the record, here's a link to the sub-thread on fedora-devel:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-July/185889.html
Comment 2 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2013-07-19 08:06:39 UTC 
Created attachment 775668 [details]
patch adding _COMM smarts
Comment 3 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2013-07-26 16:18:30 UTC 
Patch applied upstream in http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=68fee104e63.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-09-13 16:16:00 UTC 
systemd-207-1.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/systemd-207-1.fc20
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-09-23 00:04:10 UTC 
systemd-207-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2013-10-21 21:32:55 UTC 
Previous update for F19 had this patch.