Technological advantages over Linux

[Valeri Galtsev]

On 2020-02-14 12:54, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> what is better, a doorbell, a car or a watering can?
> It's not the best analogy, since regarding operating systems the answer
> not only depends on the use case, but also on the skills of the user.
> 
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 08:03:06 -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>> Add to that binary logs
> 
> "Tip: While the journal is stored in a binary format, the content of
> stored messages is not modified. This means it is viewable with
> strings, for example for recovery in an environment which does not have
> systemd installed, e.g.:
> 
> $ strings /mnt/arch/var/log/journal/af4967d77fba44c6b093d0e9862f6ddd/system.journal | grep -i message
> " - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Journal

Thanks for the tip Ralf! As always, your brilliance brings me, lazy 
person, right to what I need without learning new everchanging commands ;-)

This (using strings here) reminds me a comedy clip about machintosh: 
"sometimes you need to trick mac into doing what you actually want him 
to do" ;-)



> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
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Valeri Galtsev
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