System log files

[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,

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Suvayu

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