[systemd-devel] /var/log/journal/

[Reindl Harald]

Am 08.04.2013 14:22, schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> On Mon, 08.04.13 14:16, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:
>>> "none" turns off the journal's storage entirely, in which case it is
>>> still highly useful for forwarding all logs from STDOUT/STDERR of the
>>> various daemons to syslog, but won't store anything at all
>>> anymore. "systemctl status" won't show you any log entries in this
>>> case, and "journalctl" will show nothing but a big void.
>>
>> is it possible to configure "forwarding all logs from STDOUT/STDERR
>> to syslog" globally without care of the daemons systemd-units?
> 
> Not following. That's the default. You don't have to configure anything
> for that. The journal will always forward all logs to syslog, regardless
> whether they have been collected via the native journal API, via
> /dev/log or read from any service's stdout/stderr output.

well, then i am perfectly fine with "none"

>>> "volatile" will still allow the journal to log into a small ring buffer
>>> in /run. In this case "systemctl status" and "journalctl" will show a
>>> bit of useful log data still (as on F17, F18), but the logs are quickly
>>> rotated away usually, since /run is relatively small. This means
>>> "systemctl status" might be useful shortly after executing commands on
>>> the service, but that's it
>>
>> personally i would perfer "none" if the above is possible and stick
>> completly at rsyslog because a lot of filters and redirects in use
> 
> Hmm? I cannot parse this.

rsyslog.conf

> You cannot use "none" and expect "systemctl status" to generate any
> useful log output for you. Classic syslog is not indexed, so doing such
> a look-up is impossible. That's precisely why the journal exists in the
> first place

i am fine without these features

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