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Actually no, they are prefixed by the binary name and the PID number. Technically they are prefixed with: `<date> <host> <binary>[<pid>]`.

You can then use `systemctl status <pid>` to identify the unit if you need to.

I would imagine this is configurable, and this might be the configuration chosen by my distribution (since I have not changed it myself). It would actually be nice to show the unit name instead of the binary/PID combination, though not strictly necessary.

EDIT: Ooh, systemd 239 adds `journalctl -o with-unit` to do this exact thing. There are lots of other formats you can choose from as well.

EDIT 2: Unfortunately there's no way to set this as default, you must use `-o with-unit` each time or set up a shell alias :-\




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