systemd, journalctl and friends

[Tom H]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:
>
> I have installed 15.04 to play around with, mostly to get familiar with
> systemd, journals and all their new friends. However, all of this is
> all new to me.
>
> Is there any good documentation/introduction out there that someone can
> recommend for getting familiar with the new functionality these tools
> bring, apart from the manpages?
>
> I've been searching for a little while now, but I haven't found
> anything I thought was good and comprehensive. I know this is new to
> Ubuntu, but systemd has been used in other distros for a while, so
> there should be enough somewhere to get me started.
>
> Any suggestions would be warmly welcomed! Please note that I'm not
> trying to incite any harsh feelings around systemd, I'm simply trying
> to learn, so I can decide for myself how I feel about it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd

and a few links from Lennart's "systemd for administrators" series:

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-1.html
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-2.html
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-4.html
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/three-levels-of-off
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/blame-game.html
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-new-configuration-files
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemctl-journal.html
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/self-documented-boot.html