System log files

[Mike Chambers]

On my machine that runs as a server, it was on F21 and using dnf,
upgraded it to F22, no issues for most part except for my log files not
rotating.  I first seen this as I was no longer getting any emails from
that machine via epylog.  So I ran epylog cron manually and it said all
my modules were disabled.  So I started investigating and this is when
noticed my files didnt' have anything in them.

It seems that my log files in /var/log are not populating like they
should, such as messages, maillog, etc.  Now I know if I run journalctl
or whatever I can see messages or whatever that is from that command.

So something isn't starting or I need to do some quick edit to a config
file or something to use journald or whatever?

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"Best lil town on Earth!"

System log files (SOLVED)

[Mike Chambers]

On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 13:20 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  On Sat, 30 May 2015 10:51:13 -0500
>  Mike Chambers wrote:
>  
>  > So something isn't starting or I need to do some quick edit to a 
>  > config
>  > file or something to use journald or whatever?
>  
>  
>  In /etc/systemd/journald.conf set:
>  
>  Storage=none
>  ForwardToSyslog=yes 
Above was all I had to do to fix the problem (cept, I just left the
storage=auto as is) and the logs were populated.

Thanks for the info :-)

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"Best lil town on Earth!"

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 30 May 2015 10:51:13 -0500
Mike Chambers wrote:

>  So something isn't starting or I need to do some quick edit to a
> config
>  file or something to use journald or whatever? 
The two extreme choices are:

1. Utterly give up on readable text log files and just use the
journald tools to examine logs.

2. Turn journald into nothing more than an agent to
forward logs to good old syslog via:

dnf install rsyslog logrotate (in case you don't already have them)

systemctl enable rsyslog.service

In /etc/systemd/journald.conf set:

Storage=none
ForwardToSyslog=yes

Create a file named /etc/rsyslog.d/sd-socket.conf that contains:

$AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/syslog

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:51:13AM -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
>  On my machine that runs as a server, it was on F21 and using dnf,
>  upgraded it to F22, no issues for most part except for my log files not
>  rotating.  I first seen this as I was no longer getting any emails from
>  that machine via epylog.  So I ran epylog cron manually and it said all
>  my modules were disabled.  So I started investigating and this is when
>  noticed my files didnt' have anything in them.
>  
>  It seems that my log files in /var/log are not populating like they
>  should, such as messages, maillog, etc.  Now I know if I run journalctl
>  or whatever I can see messages or whatever that is from that command.
>  
>  So something isn't starting or I need to do some quick edit to a config
>  file or something to use journald or whatever? 
Most likely you need this line:

  ForwardToSyslog=yes

in /etc/systemd/journald.conf.  See `man 5 journald.conf'.

Hope this helps,

-- 
Suvayu

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