[systemd-devel] [PATCH] man: mention that tools like imjournal will not work with Storage=none

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 05:00:20PM +0200, Lukas Nykryn wrote:
> Manpage for journald.conf mentions that syslog will still work if you
> set Storage=none, but this is not true for some specific setups.
> For example rhel7 and combination of journal, rsyslog and imjournal plugin.
> ---
>  man/journald.conf.xml | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/journald.conf.xml b/man/journald.conf.xml
> index 2cbe58b..532d6ec 100644
> --- a/man/journald.conf.xml
> +++ b/man/journald.conf.xml
> @@ -98,7 +98,9 @@
>          <literal>none</literal> turns off all storage, all log data
>          received will be dropped. Forwarding to other targets, such as
>          the console, the kernel log buffer, or a syslog socket will
> -        still work however. Defaults to
> +        still work, unless the tool is directly reading journal log
> +        (e.g. rsyslog with imjournal plugin).
> +        Defaults to
>          <literal>auto</literal>.</para></listitem>
>        </varlistentry>
Hi Lukáš,

did you look at the latest version of that file? There's a whole
para at the end about syslog forwarding.

Zbyszek