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On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 17:23 +0300, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote:
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2014-09-14 17:06 GMT+03:00 Balint Szigeti <<A HREF="mailto:balint.szgt@gmail.com">balint.szgt@gmail.com</A>>:
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> WTF?*** sorry about inappropriate language. I've just upset a little bit.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Why does a deamon have a config file if it doesn't read it?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> journalctl is the reader command and the journald is the logger service.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Still don't get it why the config file is ignored....</FONT>
The daemon reads the journald.conf config file. At least I use an
option in journald.conf to limit the size of the persistent journal.
If you look at the options in man journald.conf, note that pretty much
all the options specify how and where the log messages get stored.
Since journalctl just reads and displays the stored data but does not
write it, there is little content in journald.conf that could be
applied to journalctl anyway.
The Storage option is one that journalctl could in theory use to
ignore some journal content that has been left lying on a system that
e.g. does not actually maintain a persistent journal. But I guess
journalctl does not currently use even that option. So if the local
admin does not want journalctl to read the persistent journal from
/var/log/journal/, the easiest way to achieve that would be to ensure
that /var/log/journal/ is not present on the system.
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As I wrote to the maillist I did it. I reconfigured the journald.conf and deleted the journal logs then restarted the systemd-journald.service. Moreover I rebooted but the logs were preserved.<BR>
So, I get what you write and the man page says but the actual daemon doesn't do it. It is a bug or just by design. Thank you systemd community, we really needed to replace the existed log system and really wanted to use it by force (Fedora mail list - Re: case study - journalctl - where is logger output).<BR>
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Balint
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