[systemd-devel] Masking systemd-journal-flush and setting journal storage to persistent

Umut Tezduyar umut at tezduyar.com
Tue May 7 04:15:37 PDT 2013


Hi,

No worries. Maybe you want to add systemd-journal-flush.service to
man systemd-journald.

Maybe altering the help text as following too:

To make the data persistent it is sufficient to create /var/log/journal/
 where systemd-journald-flush.service will then store the data.


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net>wrote:

> On Mon, 06.05.13 22:39, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote:
>
> > > According to man journald, it shouldn't be necessary to send the
> SIGUSR1 as
> > > systemd-journal-flush.service does. It was my expectation that systemd
> > > would eventually carry journal to /var/.
> >
> > The man page is actually incorrect here. We changed that a while back
> > from the implicit flush to an explicit flush to get rid of some races.
>
> I have fixed the man page now. Sorry for the confusion.
>
> Lennart
>
> --
> Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.
>
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