[systemd-devel] Trying to resolve user level systemd unit journal not writing to local user journal

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On 12.08.2024 22:36, SCOTT FIELDS wrote:
> OS = Fedora 39
> Systemd version = 254.13
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> I have an application running via a user level system unit file.
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> The UID is > 999.
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> I'm expecting the application journal entries to be a local entry in $XDG_STATE_HOME/log, but it's using the user level journal in /var/log/journal.
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Why do you expecting that?

> FYI, I'm not expressly setting XDG_STATE_HOME, since it heavily implies it will default to '$HOME /. local/state'
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> I not yet tested expressly setting XDG_STATE_HOME in the unit file environment variables, since I really shouldn't have to.
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> My understanding of the behavior is it SHOULD be writing this to the XDG_STATE_HOME location. If it's correct, how I can be troubleshoot why it's not?
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> 
> Scott Fields
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> Kyndryl
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> Senior Lead SRE – BNSF
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> 817-593-5038 (BNSF)
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> scott.fields at kyndryl.com<mailto:scott.fields at kyndryl.com>
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> scott.fields at bnsf.com<mailto:scott.fields at bnsf.com>
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