systemd.journal module¶
JournalHandler class¶
Accessing the Journal¶
Example: polling for journal events¶
This example shows that journal events can be waited for (using e.g. poll). This makes it easy to integrate Reader in an external event loop:
>>> import select
>>> from systemd import journal
>>> j = journal.Reader()
>>> j.seek_tail()
>>> journal.send('testing 1,2,3') # make sure we have something to read
>>> j.add_match('MESSAGE=testing 1,2,3')
>>> p = select.poll()
>>> p.register(j, j.get_events())
>>> p.poll()
[(3, 1)]
>>> j.get_next()
{'_AUDIT_LOGINUID': 1000,
'_CAP_EFFECTIVE': '0',
'_SELINUX_CONTEXT': 'unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023',
'_GID': 1000,
'CODE_LINE': 1,
'_HOSTNAME': '...',
'_SYSTEMD_SESSION': 52,
'_SYSTEMD_OWNER_UID': 1000,
'MESSAGE': 'testing 1,2,3',
'__MONOTONIC_TIMESTAMP':
journal.Monotonic(timestamp=datetime.timedelta(2, 76200, 811585),
bootid=UUID('958b7e26-df4c-453a-a0f9-a8406cb508f2')),
'SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER': 'python3',
'_UID': 1000,
'_EXE': '/usr/bin/python3',
'_PID': 7733,
'_COMM': '...',
'CODE_FUNC': '<module>',
'CODE_FILE': '<doctest journal.rst[4]>',
'_SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP':
datetime.datetime(2015, 9, 5, 13, 17, 4, 944355),
'__CURSOR': 's=...',
'_BOOT_ID': UUID('958b7e26-df4c-453a-a0f9-a8406cb508f2'),
'_CMDLINE': '/usr/bin/python3 ...',
'_MACHINE_ID': UUID('263bb31e-3e13-4062-9bdb-f1f4518999d2'),
'_SYSTEMD_SLICE': 'user-1000.slice',
'_AUDIT_SESSION': 52,
'__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP': datetime.datetime(2015, 9, 5, 13, 17, 4, 945110),
'_SYSTEMD_UNIT': 'session-52.scope',
'_SYSTEMD_CGROUP': '/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-52.scope',
'_TRANSPORT': 'journal'}