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How to read journal from a user defined unit

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
python

Research direction

No file or test is named. Start by inspecting the Python journal API around journal.CURRENT_USER and compare its behavior with journalctl --user-unit foobar.service; done means documenting or exposing the equivalent way to read entries for user-defined units.

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Description

It is not clear to me how to read journal entries for user defined units. Adding the journal.CURRENT_USER flag does not work in this case. I believe there may be a difference between journal entries for a user and journal entries for user defined units.

I am looking for the equivalent to this command:

journalctl --user-unit foobar.service
Dominant language
C
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