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=fa6e97edf06263eea3faf169b66e9bba447c24eb;hp=7ac73ed66d821013250828eb2a3e73a198a9d732;hb=a03fe1a5d56be86fcc383090e191224590a1ab5d;hpb=03ee5c38cb0da193dd08733fb4c0c2809cee6a99 diff --git a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml index 7ac73ed66..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. @@ -248,7 +265,9 @@ journald.conf5, systemd.journal-fields7, sd-journal3, + systemd-coredump8, setfacl1, + sd_journal_print4, pydoc systemd.journal.