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wish I knew how to use the journal, seems like there isn't any good way to just search the previous session's logs without a mountain of fuss or having to guess file names
Check that you actually have persistent storage enabled. (See
man journald.confand search forStorage)Read up on the numerous parameters to journalctl. (
man journalctl)journalctl --boot -2will show logs from previous boot.journalctl --since "-2 weeks" --unit=sshdlast two weeks worth of sshd logs.What if I'm on another minimal distro, like Artix, that doesn't use systemd? Journald is a systemd thing, and I'm not going to install systemd on top of a perfectly good init system.
On distros w/o systemd there is always syslog-ng. s6 also has its own log system.