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minus-squarezurohki@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoI know whenever I try to help someone with a Linux issue it’s always an uphill battle to get them to stop guessing what they think the problem might be and show me the logs. People really don’t want to give you the information you need to help them.
minus-squareKISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoTo be fair, people who know which logs to attach and how to get them usually already know enough to troubleshoot the issue by themselves.
minus-squarepng@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoThis is such a hard part of learning Linux. “Just look at the logs” Which logs? Where? How?
minus-squareKISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 month agojournalctl > logs.txt (don’t actually do this)
I know whenever I try to help someone with a Linux issue it’s always an uphill battle to get them to stop guessing what they think the problem might be and show me the logs.
People really don’t want to give you the information you need to help them.
To be fair, people who know which logs to attach and how to get them usually already know enough to troubleshoot the issue by themselves.
This is such a hard part of learning Linux. “Just look at the logs” Which logs? Where? How?
journalctl > logs.txt
(don’t actually do this)