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On 09/22/2014 08:50 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:41 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> My main desktop machine is obviously having a brain fart :( |
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>> systemd-journald is allegedly obligated to write its journal files |
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>> to /var/log/journal/ *if* that directory exists, right? |
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>> Well, on my three other gentoo ~amd64 machines, that's exactly what |
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>> journald does. |
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>> But not on my everyday work machine, oh no. I'd be daft to expect |
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>> my one main everyday machine to obey the rules, right? |
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>> On this machine (the one I'm using now) journald is writing its |
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>> files to /run/log/journal/ instead of /var/log/journal/ |
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>> # ls -l /var/log/journal/ |
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>> total 4 |
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>> drwxr-sr-x 2 root systemd-journal-remote 4096 Sep 22 14:39 remote |
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>> #ls -l /var/log/journal/remote/ |
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>> total 0 |
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>> The *.conf files in /etc/systemd/ are the same on all machines: |
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>> all of the config items are commented out, as sys-apps/systemd |
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>> installed them. |
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>> So, why is this particular machine not behaving like the others? |
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> Hi Walt; the relevant documentation is from man 8 systemd-journald: |
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> "By default, the journal stores log data in /run/log/journal/. Since |
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> /run/ is volatile, log data is lost at reboot. To make the data |
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> persistent, it is sufficient to create /var/log/journal/ where |
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> systemd-journald will then store the data." |
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> So, in the failing machine the journal is not flushing its volatile |
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> data to /var. I would suspect a permissions issue. Could you please |
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> post the output from: |
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> # ls -ld /var/log/journal |
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> In my main machine, this is: |
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> drwxr-sr-x 3 root systemd-journal 4096 Oct 28 2012 /var/log/journal |
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> So its 2755; all permissions for root, read and execution (with SETGID |
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> bit on), and read and execution for everyone else. The directory is |
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> owned by root, and it's on the systemd-journal group. |
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Thanks, Rich and Canek. I fixed the problem by accident while trying |
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to debug it. |
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I used systemctl to stop and restart systemd-journald, thinking I might |
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see some useful error messages. But when systemd-journal started up |
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again the journal file was back in /var/log/journal where I want it :) |
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No idea why rebooting the machine didn't do the same thing. |
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Thanks. |
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