man: add an additional note about journalctl -u

Fixes #5387.

I kept the _SYSTEMD_UNIT= example because it is easy to understand and
not very verbose. _SYSTEMD_CGROUP has much longer entries which do not
fit well in the narrow man page. Instead, I added an explanation of what
-u is translated into.
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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2018-03-23 14:27:48 +01:00
parent 752ce3967e
commit b3e4e23e83

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@ -930,7 +930,8 @@
<para>With one match specified, all entries with a field matching
the expression are shown:</para>
<programlisting>journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=avahi-daemon.service</programlisting>
<programlisting>journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=avahi-daemon.service
journalctl _SYSTEMD_CGROUP=/user.slice/user-42.slice/session-c1.scope</programlisting>
<para>If two different fields are matched, only entries matching
both expressions at the same time are shown:</para>
@ -950,6 +951,19 @@
<programlisting>journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=avahi-daemon.service _PID=28097 + _SYSTEMD_UNIT=dbus.service</programlisting>
<para>To show all fields emited <emphasis>by</emphasis> a unit and <emphasis>about</emphasis>
the unit, option <option>-u</option>/<option>--unit=</option> should be used.
<command>journalctl -u <replaceable>name</replaceable></command>
expands to a complex filter similar to
<programlisting>_SYSTEMD_UNIT=<replaceable>name</replaceable>.service
+ UNIT=<replaceable>name</replaceable>.service _PID=1
+ OBJECT_SYSTEMD_UNIT=<replaceable>name</replaceable>.service _UID=0
+ COREDUMP_UNIT=<replaceable>name</replaceable>.service _UID=0 MESSAGE_ID=fc2e22bc6ee647b6b90729ab34a250b1
</programlisting>
(see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for an explanation of those patterns).
</para>
<para>Show all logs generated by the D-Bus executable:</para>
<programlisting>journalctl /usr/bin/dbus-daemon</programlisting>