[systemd-devel] journal and /run/systemd/journal/syslog

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Umut Tezduyar <umut at tezduyar.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:

>> We though about just bumping this globally via sysctl, but we feared
>> that might not sit well with some folks, as we shouldn't change a global
>> setting just because one user of it would benefit, especially given that
>> we don't know the effect this might have on others...
>
> I want to go this route and I think it is not possible at the moment
> due to undetermined start order between syslog.socket and
> systemd-sysctl.service. Can we change that?

It really makes more sense to add a socket option to the kernel to
allow a privileged process to bump the limit for the one socket
setsockopt() is called, and not change and rely on a global
system-wide value affecting the entire system.

Kay