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Because of the documentation for the 'logsdirectory' option for unit files.</div>
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<dt><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><code>RuntimeDirectory=</code>,
<code>StateDirectory=</code>, <code>CacheDirectory=</code>, <code>LogsDirectory=</code>,
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These options take a whitespace-separated list of directory names. The specified directory names must be relative, and may not include "<code>..</code>". If set, when the unit is started, one or more directories by the specified names will be created (including
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<b>Table 2. Automatic directory creation and environment variables</b></div>
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<td><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><code>RuntimeDirectory=</code></span></td>
<td><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><code>/run/</code></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><code>/var/lib/</code></span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><code>/etc/</code></span></td>
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Granted...this states the directory will be created in the case of user units...and does not state that it would actually put the log there. But it doesn't make a lot of sense to state the given behavior and not use it</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 12, 2024 11:08 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> SCOTT FIELDS <Scott.Fields@kyndryl.com>; systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org <systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [systemd-devel] Trying to resolve user level systemd unit journal not writing to local user journal</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On 12.08.2024 22:36, SCOTT FIELDS wrote:<br>
> OS = Fedora 39<br>
> Systemd version = 254.13<br>
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> I have an application running via a user level system unit file.<br>
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> The UID is > 999.<br>
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> I'm expecting the application journal entries to be a local entry in $XDG_STATE_HOME/log, but it's using the user level journal in /var/log/journal.<br>
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Why do you expecting that?<br>
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> FYI, I'm not expressly setting XDG_STATE_HOME, since it heavily implies it will default to '$HOME /. local/state'<br>
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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.<br>
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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?<br>
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> Scott Fields<br>
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> Kyndryl<br>
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> Senior Lead SRE – BNSF<br>
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> 817-593-5038 (BNSF)<br>
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> scott.fields@kyndryl.com<mailto:scott.fields@kyndryl.com><br>
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> scott.fields@bnsf.com<mailto:scott.fields@bnsf.com><br>
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