Bug#837893: systemd: Logging from gnome session is passed on to all syslog facilities

[Matijs van Zuijlen]

On 19/12/16 00:24, Michael Biebl wrote:
> I don't think this is a systemd bug per se, it just means that more
> GNOME/desktop components now directly log to the journal [¹].

I don't think so, since the change was quite abrupt, but that could also
be due to the transition to GNOME 3.22.

> In this case the syslog facility is not set, as you already noticed.
> Maybe glib should be updated to set the syslog facility to user, not sure.

It seems the intention of journald is to set the facility to user if
none is set:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/journal/journald-syslog.c#L190

This is what to me seems to be broken at the moment.

> [¹]
> https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Message-Logging.html#g-log-structured
> 

-- 
Matijs

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