X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsystemd-journald.service.xml;h=4d2cb40805d411e1f45e4d018ad5b5f1d58f78ea;hp=2f877f565c5580999de9641789d4deaad53d6e24;hb=3e6b205f81e743c7354ccbc69eb45afbdbebe2dc;hpb=79640424059328268b9fb6c5fa8eb777b27a177e diff --git a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml index 2f877f565..4d2cb4080 100644 --- a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml @@ -59,17 +59,17 @@ Description 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 + 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 STDOUT/STDERR of system services or via its - native API. It will implicitly collect numerous meta - data fields for each log messages in a secure and - unfakeable way. See + 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 systemd.journal-fields7 - for more information about the collected meta data. + for more information about the collected metadata. Log data collected by the journal is primarily