On 11/17/2014 03:54 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 11/17/2014 at 08:21 AM, Martin Read wrote: >> A default Debian jessie configuration has persistent text logs in >> /var/log written by rsyslog, and *volatile* binary logs in >> /run/log/journal written by systemd-journald. Removing the binary >> logs completely disables functionality of the systemd suite which an >> administrator familiar with systemd would expect to be present by >> default. > > This is news to me, and mildly disturbing. > > I recall having previously seen it stated, repeatedly, that Debian by > default does not store binary logs at all even when running under > systemd - that they exist only in memory, and that the actual log data > is stored only in text-log-file format via forwarding to rsyslog.
That's exactly what the word volatile means: /run is a in-memory filesystem, thus all files there only exist in memory. For the default configuration in Debian this means that all log messages are stored persistently in /var/log by rsyslog, and some recent log messages are *also* kept in a volatile in-memory file by journald. Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/546a0e65.5070...@debian.org
