On Sat, Sep 03, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2016-09-02 20:47, Daniel Bauer wrote:
After a restart /var/log/messages was created and filled with actual and even very old data. So everything ok. Sorry.
Next step is stopping systemd keeping the journal. There are settings for this which I'll have to find out again.
Arrggghhh.
syslog-ng may "conflict" with systemd-journald, but that seems..odd.
Insofar as I've just discovered syslog-ng rather depends on a running systemd-journald in order to get any messages. I had enabled & started syslog-ng, and disabled & stopped systemd-journal. Today I notice that I have nothing except stats() in /var/log/messages. Everything else stopped at the same point where I turned off systemd-journald...
So it seems not so much either/or as "would you like us to scribble the messages in the old-fashioned way to /var/log AS WELL?"
If someone from SuSE knows definitively if this is How It Works, clarification would be welcome. There used to be a config option in systemd to forward all logs to syslog/ rsyslog. You can try find that setting but they were going to deprecate the
On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 14:12:31 BST Michael Fischer wrote: option because rsyslog/syslog extract the data from the jounral themselves now.
TIA,
Michael
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