[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#717388: Bug#717388: Please enable persistent journal

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Josh,

Am 20.07.2013 08:38, schrieb Josh Triplett:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 204-1
> Severity: normal
> File: systemd-journald
> 
> By default, journald logs to the non-persistent /run/log/journal.
> journald will only maintain a persistent journal if /var/log/journal
> exists.
> 
> Please create /var/log/journal, to enable persistent journal logging.

There are two main reasons why I decided to not enable persistent
logging just yet
1/ We did get corrupt journal files in the past where the journal then
no longer worked at all [1]. With volatile you can just reboot and have
a clean state again. Admittedly, the journal has seen a lot of
improvements in the mean time and hopefully is more robust, so this
point is no longer true.
1/ We still install rsyslog by default. That means we get store them
twice. This is something we don't want to do atm.

That said, it would be great if you can enable persistent logging by
yourself (it's a trivial mkdir after all) and report any issues you find.
We will revisit this issue at a later time, but not atm


Thanks,
Michael

[1] We had persistent logging enabled for a while and decided to disable
before the wheezy release, in 44-8.
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