Can I manually write an entery into journald using Python?

Question

I'm trying to manually write an entry into journald from Python. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks for any insights.

-Paul

Duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34588421/how-to-log-to-journald-systemd-via-python — Federico, Jul 10 '19 at 16:19

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 19 '13 at 15:06

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If by journald you are referring to the systemd journal, then a simple search for "journald python api" yields:

https://github.com/systemd/python-systemd

Usage

Quick example:

from systemd import journal

journal.send('Hello world')
journal.send('Hello, again, world', FIELD2='Greetings!', FIELD3='Guten tag')
journal.send('Binary message', BINARY=b'\xde\xad\xbe\xef')

edited Jul 19 '13 at 15:06

mblakele

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answered Jul 19 '13 at 14:50

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I'm a newbie to both Python and Linux. Thank you for pointing me to this; I'll check it out. – witch359 Jul 19 '13 at 15:30

Can I manually write an entery into journald using Python?

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