http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129541 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129541#c1 Franck Bui changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fbui@suse.com --- Comment #1 from Franck Bui --- You need to install systemd-logger package for creating /var/log/journal. Not sure why you need to do that manually, I thought that it was part of the packages installed by default. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129541 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129541#c2 --- Comment #2 from Dan Čermák --- (In reply to Franck Bui from comment #1)

You need to install systemd-logger package for creating /var/log/journal.

That's the reason! That package was missing on my system.

Not sure why you need to do that manually, I thought that it was part of the packages installed by default.

Apparently not. For some reason my Tumbleweed machine came with rsyslog instead of systemd-logger, however journalctl was still available and it looks like it did all the logging anyway. For the record: during installation I selected only the most minimal patterns and disabled the installation of Recommended packages. Should I report this somewhere else instead? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129541 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129541#c5 Dominique Leuenberger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|IN_PROGRESS |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |WORKSFORME --- Comment #5 from Dominique Leuenberger --- (In reply to Franck Bui from comment #4)

Dominique, could you look at this bug ?

At this point I think it's more related to the minimal pattern than to systemd.

Feel free to re-assign it back if it's not correct.

Thanks.

From the patterns changelog:

Wed Oct 3 11:56:16 CEST 2018 - sflees@suse.de - Merge back in Leap 15 / SLE changes, important items from that packages changlog can be found below - explicitly include rsyslog in the base pattern to make sure logging goes to /var/log/messages as documented (bsc#1094841). So, yes, rsyslog is still the defacto default - mainly for matching the doc which, IIRC, was never rewritten for users not to look for /var/log/messages -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.