[systemd-devel] journald does not support syslog?

[dE]

On 09/06/2015 07:05 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Sun, 06.09.15 18:20, dE (de.techno at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> On 09/06/2015 06:00 PM, Michael Chapman wrote:
>>> On Sun, 6 Sep 2015, dE wrote:
>>>> Hello all!
>>>>
>>>> As per the systemd-journald man page,
>>>>
>>>>> It creates and maintains
>>>>>        structured, indexed journals based on logging information that
>>>>> is received from a variety of sources:
>>>>> Simple system log messages, via the libc syslog(3) call
>>>> Unfortunately I did not find any configuration parameter to make
>>>> systemd-journald listen on a unix/network socket for syslog messages,
>>>> making me high suspicious of this claim.
>>>>
>>>> So final question is -- How do you make journald listen for syslog
>>>> messages via syslog protocol?
>>> See the systemd-journal-dev-log.socket unit on your system (it's mentioned
>>> in that manpage). This socket is passed to journald when it's started. The
>>> socket unit should be enabled and acive on any standard systemd
>>> installation.
>>>
>>> - Michael
>> Yes, I got that socket (/run/systemd/journal/dev-log).
>>
>> However /dev/log is not present (it's not made by default) and ss -xnlp does
>> not list /run/systemd/journal/dev-log or it's corresponding inode as being
>> listened by any program.
>>
>> Anyway, thanks for helping out. I've made the /dev/log symlink and now it
>> works.
> If the symlink is missing then something on your system must be
> actively deleting it. systemd-journald-dev-log.socket contains
> Symlinks=/dev/log to ensure the symlink is created as ĺong as the
> socket for it is up.
>
> Lennart
>

Yeah, that's the problem. That's why I said /dev/log is not present.

For the record I'm using Gentoo. So maybe some build time FEATURE is 
missing.