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From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= <caneko@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 22:50:46 -0500
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] journald refuses to put log files in /var/log/journal/
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:41 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> My main desktop machine is obviously having a brain fart :(
>
> systemd-journald is allegedly obligated to write its journal files
> to /var/log/journal/ *if* that directory exists, right?
>
> Well, on my three other gentoo ~amd64 machines, that's exactly what
> journald does.
>
> But not on my everyday work machine, oh no. I'd be daft to expect
> my one main everyday machine to obey the rules, right?
>
> On this machine (the one I'm using now) journald is writing its
> files to /run/log/journal/ instead of /var/log/journal/
>
> # ls -l /var/log/journal/
> total 4
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root systemd-journal-remote 4096 Sep 22 14:39 remote
>
> #ls -l /var/log/journal/remote/
> total 0
>
>
> The *.conf files in /etc/systemd/ are the same on all machines:
> all of the config items are commented out, as sys-apps/systemd
> installed them.
>
> So, why is this particular machine not behaving like the others?
Hi Walt; the relevant documentation is from man 8 systemd-journald:
"By default, the journal stores log data in /run/log/journal/. Since
/run/ is volatile, log data is lost at reboot. To make the data
persistent, it is sufficient to create /var/log/journal/ where
systemd-journald will then store the data."
So, in the failing machine the journal is not flushing its volatile
data to /var. I would suspect a permissions issue. Could you please
post the output from:
# ls -ld /var/log/journal
In my main machine, this is:
drwxr-sr-x 3 root systemd-journal 4096 Oct 28 2012 /var/log/journal
So its 2755; all permissions for root, read and execution (with SETGID
bit on), and read and execution for everyone else. The directory is
owned by root, and it's on the systemd-journal group.
Regards.
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Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s
Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico