On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 12:56:43AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 09 May 2015, Josh Triplett wrote: > > The on-disk persistent journal (/var/log/journal) is disabled because at > > the moment, Debian systems use syslog by default (via rsyslog), and > > enabling the persistent journal would result in two copies of log > > messages. > > > > Since the journal is capable of capturing messages sent to syslog, I'm > > hoping that at some point the systemd source package will build a binary > > package that installs /var/log/journal and Provides the > > system-log-daemon and linux-kernel-log-daemon virtual packages. (As > > well as a non-default one that provides the same virtual packages but > > doesn't provide the persistent journal directory, for systems that want > > transient in-memory logging only.) > > And I wish it would keep /var/log/dmesg (and its rotation). That thing is > really useful for user support when dealing with kernel and boot issues. > > I consider the lack of /var/log/dmesg updates in jessie under systemd to be > a relevant regression, as journal persistence is not enabled by default.
Leaving aside the persistence issue (for which kern.log seems like a somewhat reasonable substitute), once we have persistent journaling enabled, journalctl's -b option should address this, by making it convenient to access the journal data from a particular boot. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150511145759.GD6130@x
