[systemd-devel] Native Journal source vs syslog forwarding

[Colin Guthrie]

Gergely Nagy wrote on 26/11/14 10:04:
> 3) Disable syslog forwarding if syslog-ng is installed
> 
>    Not sure how this could be achieved, because journald.conf does not
>    belong to the syslog-ng package, therefore I can't fiddle its
>    settings from there. (Technically, I could, but I won't, that'd be
>    extremely rude.)

I think there were some patches recently that talked about added ".d/"
dir support for such config files. Thus syslog-ng could ship a
/etc/systemd/journal.conf.d/syslog-ng.conf file which did this (or
preferably a /usr/lib/systemd/journal.conf.d/syslog-ng.conf file so it
follows best practice guidelines for stateless systems)

See the patches by Josh Triplett:

[PATCH 1/2] Introduce CONF_DIRS_NULSTR helper to define standard conf dirs
[PATCH 2/2] logind: Support logind.conf.d directories in the usual
search paths

The latter patch just adds support in logind, but mentions the likes of
journald too as further work if approved.

I think this approach would solve your problem fairly cleanly.

Col

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