From 56395fe30ba78987e3028599ac1057de7d15e56b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerhard Gonter <ggonter@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:50:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Debian does not have messages or syslog anymore

---
 hacks/linux/lvm/cfgmgr.pl | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hacks/linux/lvm/cfgmgr.pl b/hacks/linux/lvm/cfgmgr.pl
index 79dc0c9..147ed30 100755
--- a/hacks/linux/lvm/cfgmgr.pl
+++ b/hacks/linux/lvm/cfgmgr.pl
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ $Data::Dumper::Indent= 1;
 
 open (MSG, '/var/log/messages')    # RHEL, CentOS
   or open (MSG, '/var/log/syslog') # Ubuntu
-  or die "cant read messages";     # TODO: or try something else?
+  or open (MSG, '|-', 'journalctl -ex') # Debian
+  or die "can't read messages";     # TODO: or try something else?
 
 seek (MSG, 0, 2);
 
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