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I'm in Guix Linux land right now and I miss
journald. I'm supposed to wade through all the log files in/var/logmyself??I still have no idea how to find the right record to read but at least I can run a journalctl --follow till my crash happens
If that approach is enough then
tail -f /var/log/*could work too with multiple files, it'll "follow" all the files and display only new lines.