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fix seeking of journal-cursor upon startup #14

Closed mgumz closed 8 years ago

mgumz commented 8 years ago

due to strange behaviour in sd_journal_next(), some random starting point in the journals were used instead of the specified "tail". as a result, lots of log messages were (potentially) resend to the graylog server.

to nudge the sd_journal_next() call into the right behaviour, a workaround is used, similar to what's outlined in the various related bugreports: