limiting is applied per-service, so
that two services which log do not
interfere with each other's
- limits. Defaults to 200 messages in
- 10s. The time specification for
+ limits. Defaults to 1000 messages in
+ 30s. The time specification for
<varname>RateLimitInterval=</varname>
may be specified in the following
units: <literal>s</literal>,
<para><varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname>
and <varname>RuntimeMaxUse=</varname>
control how much disk space the
- journal may use up at
- maximum. Defaults to 10% of the size
- of the respective file
- system. <varname>SystemKeepFree=</varname>
- and
+ journal may use up at maximum.
+ <varname>SystemKeepFree=</varname> and
<varname>RuntimeKeepFree=</varname>
control how much disk space
- systemd-journald shall always leave
- free for other uses. Defaults to 15%
- of the size of the respective file
- system. systemd-journald will respect
- both limits, i.e. use the smaller of
- the two values.
- <varname>SystemMaxFileSize=</varname>
+ systemd-journald shall leave free for
+ other uses.
+ <command>systemd-journald</command>
+ will respect both limits and use the
+ smaller of the two values.</para>
+
+ <para>The first pair defaults to 10%
+ and the second to 15% of the size of
+ the respective file system. If the
+ file system is nearly full and either
+ <varname>SystemKeepFree=</varname> or
+ <varname>RuntimeKeepFree=</varname> is
+ violated when systemd-journald is
+ started, the value will be raised to
+ percentage that is actually free. This
+ means that if there was enough
+ free space before and journal files were
+ created, and subsequently something
+ else causes the file system to fill
+ up, journald will stop using more
+ space, but it will not be removing
+ existing files to go reduce footprint
+ either.</para>
+
+ <para><varname>SystemMaxFileSize=</varname>
and
<varname>RuntimeMaxFileSize=</varname>
control how large individual journal
<term><varname>ForwardToSyslog=</varname></term>
<term><varname>ForwardToKMsg=</varname></term>
<term><varname>ForwardToConsole=</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>ForwardToWall=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Control whether log
messages received by the journal
daemon shall be forwarded to a
traditional syslog daemon, to the
- kernel log buffer (kmsg), or to the
- system console. These options take
- boolean arguments. If forwarding to
- syslog is enabled but no syslog daemon
- is running, the respective option has
- no effect. By default, only forwarding
- to syslog is enabled. These settings
- may be overridden at boot time with
- the kernel command line options
+ kernel log buffer (kmsg), to the
+ system console, or sent as wall
+ messages to all logged-in users. These
+ options take boolean arguments. If
+ forwarding to syslog is enabled but no
+ syslog daemon is running, the
+ respective option has no effect. By
+ default, only forwarding to syslog and
+ wall is enabled. These settings may be
+ overridden at boot time with the
+ kernel command line options
<literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_syslog=</literal>,
- <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_kmsg=</literal>
+ <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_kmsg=</literal>,
+ <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_console=</literal>
and
- <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_console=</literal>.
- </para></listitem>
+ <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_wall=</literal>.
+ When forwarding to the console, the
+ TTY to log to can be changed
+ with <varname>TTYPath=</varname>,
+ described below.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>MaxLevelSyslog=</varname></term>
<term><varname>MaxLevelKMsg=</varname></term>
<term><varname>MaxLevelConsole=</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>MaxLevelWall=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Controls the maximum
log level of messages that are stored
- on disk, forwarded to syslog, kmsg or
- the console (if that is enabled, see
- above). As argument, takes one of
+ on disk, forwarded to syslog, kmsg,
+ the console or wall (if that is
+ enabled, see above). As argument,
+ takes one of
<literal>emerg</literal>,
<literal>alert</literal>,
<literal>crit</literal>,
written to disk and forwarded to
syslog. Defaults to
<literal>notice</literal> for
- <varname>MaxLevelKMsg=</varname> and
+ <varname>MaxLevelKMsg=</varname>,
<literal>info</literal> for
- <varname>MaxLevelConsole=</varname>.</para></listitem>
+ <varname>MaxLevelConsole=</varname> and
+ <literal>emerg</literal> for
+ <varname>MaxLevelWall=</varname>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
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