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diff --git a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml
index 1f1a7f1ca..fa6e97edf 100644
--- a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml
@@ -63,13 +63,31 @@
systemd-journald is a
system service that collects and stores logging data.
It creates and maintains structured, indexed journals
- based on logging information that is received from the
- kernel, from user processes via the libc
- syslog3
- call, from standard input and standard error of system
- services or via its native API. It will implicitly
- collect numerous metadata fields for each log
- messages in a secure and unfakeable way. See
+ based on logging information that is received from a
+ variety of sources:
+
+
+ Kernel log messages, via kmsg
+
+ Simple system log messages, via the
+ libc syslog3
+ call
+
+ Structured system log messages via the
+ native Journal API, see
+ sd_journal_print4
+
+ Standard output and
+ standard error of system
+ services
+
+ Audit records, via the audit subsystem
+
+
+ The daemon will implicitly collect numerous
+ metadata fields for each log messages in a secure and
+ unfakeable way. See
systemd.journal-fields7
for more information about the collected metadata.
@@ -89,8 +107,7 @@
the data.
systemd-journald will
- forward all received log messages to the AF_UNIX
- SOCK_DGRAM socket
+ forward all received log messages to the AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM socket
/run/systemd/journal/syslog, if it exists, which
may be used by Unix syslog daemons to process the data
further.
@@ -250,6 +267,7 @@
sd-journal3,
systemd-coredump8,
setfacl1,
+ sd_journal_print4,
pydoc systemd.journal.