From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD9713838B for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:42:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DCC0E09E8; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FA15E094C for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:42:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1F7340020 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:42:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 1.652 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.652 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.241, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=0.865, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.964, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_FSL_HELO_BARE_IP_2=0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yqF5KmJHjC8i for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:41:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 13E983401D6 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XWEB0-0003Q5-AB for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:41:54 +0200 Received: from 64.69.39.91 ([64.69.39.91]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:41:54 +0200 Received: from w41ter by 64.69.39.91 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:41:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] journald refuses to put log files in /var/log/journal/ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:41:35 -0700 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.69.39.91 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0 X-Archives-Salt: d505a865-de31-4c60-9065-442e6260a8a8 X-Archives-Hash: 630da057c5993d3d195bf17307ca11fe 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? Any debugging ideas would be most welcome. Thanks.