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=822f3c28f0834e9b6b95462b16ba22f4be478f9a;hb=9b15b7846d4de01bb5d9700a24077787e984e8ab;hpb=e943ecc88d87f8747cc6396688c1347b40c15e03 diff --git a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml index 822f3c28f..fa6e97edf 100644 --- a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ systemd-journald.service systemd-journald.socket + systemd-journald-dev-log.socket systemd-journald Journal service @@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ systemd-journald.service systemd-journald.socket + systemd-journald-dev-log.socket /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald @@ -59,38 +61,55 @@ 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 - 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 + system service that collects and stores logging data. + It creates and maintains structured, indexed journals + 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 meta data. + for more information about the collected metadata. Log data collected by the journal is primarily - text based but can also include binary data where + text-based but can also include binary data where necessary. All objects stored in the journal can be up to 2^64-1 bytes in size. - By default the journal stores log data in + By default, the journal stores log data in /run/log/journal/. Since - /run/ is volatile log data is - lost at reboot. To make the data persistent it + /run/ is volatile, log data is + lost at reboot. To make the data persistent, it is sufficient to create /var/log/journal/ where systemd-journald will then store the data. systemd-journald will - 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 + 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. See @@ -142,11 +161,12 @@ systemd.journald.forward_to_syslog= systemd.journald.forward_to_kmsg= systemd.journald.forward_to_console= + systemd.journald.forward_to_wall= Enables/disables forwarding of collected log messages - to syslog, the kernel log buffer or - the system console. + to syslog, the kernel log buffer, the + system console or wall. See @@ -161,15 +181,15 @@ Access Control - Journal files are by default owned and readable + Journal files are, by default, owned and readable by the systemd-journal system group - (but not writable). Adding a user to this group thus + but are not writable. Adding a user to this group thus enables her/him to read the journal files. By default, each logged in user will get her/his own set of journal files in /var/log/journal/. These files - will not be owned by the user however, in order to + will not be owned by the user, however, in order to avoid that the user can write to them directly. Instead, file system ACLs are used to ensure the user gets read access only. @@ -191,6 +211,52 @@ directory. + + Files + + + + /etc/systemd/journald.conf + + Configure + systemd-journald + behaviour. See + journald.conf5. + + + + + /run/log/journal/machine-id/*.journal + /run/log/journal/machine-id/*.journal~ + /var/log/journal/machine-id/*.journal + /var/log/journal/machine-id/*.journal~ + + systemd-journald + writes entries to files in + /run/log/journal/machine-id/ + or + /var/log/journal/machine-id/ + with the .journal + suffix. If the daemon is stopped + uncleanly, or if the files are found + to be corrupted, they are renamed + using the .journal~ + suffix, and + systemd-journald + starts writing to a new + file. /run is + used when + /var/log/journal + is not available, or when + is + set in the + journald.conf5 + configuration file. + + + + + See Also @@ -199,7 +265,10 @@ journald.conf5, systemd.journal-fields7, sd-journal3, - setfacl1 + systemd-coredump8, + setfacl1, + sd_journal_print4, + pydoc systemd.journal.