Nobody knows how to get rid of those unnecessary journald binary logs?
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 13:01:49 +0200
Franta Hanzlík <franta@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In previous Fedora distros was (IMHO) right way to log only to syslog,
> without journald and its (for me) unwanted annoying binary logs, by using
> configuration as:
>
> *) Set systemd log target to syslog:
> systemd.log_target=syslog (syslog-or-kmsg) ---- on kernel cmdline
> systemd.default_standard_output=syslog --/
> and
> LogTarget=syslog ---- in systemd.conf
> DefaultStandardOutput=syslog --/
>
> *) configuring rsyslog to listen on /dev/log unix socket:
> $SystemLogSocketName /dev/log ------ in rsyslog.conf
> $ModLoad imuxsock ----/
> $OmitLocalLogging off ---/
> $AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/syslog --/(legacy directives)
> $AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/socket -/
> $AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/stdout /
> (not sure when all last three directives needed)
>
> *) prevent to run journald:
> systemctl mask systemd-journald.service
> (and maybe mask systemd-journal-flush.service)
>
> And it works fine.
> But in actual Fedora 24 in systemd man page values syslog-or-kmsg and
> syslog are missing in LogTarget option. As systemd/journald man pages
> say hardly anything about exact mean of appropriate configuration for
> this purpose, then please when someone more knowledgeable can advise:
>
> - where to direct the systemd output? Maybe to kmsg an then read it in
> rsyslog via imklog?
> (rsyslog should have also imkmsg module, but is not in rsyslog-8.12.0-3.fc24)
>
> - what about /run/log/journal/.../system.journal ?
> On my test F24 system it have open rsyslogd, abrt-dump-journal-oops and
> abrt-dump-journal-xorg (no need for these last two) processes. Uses it
> also something else?
>
> - what about /run/systemd/journal/{dev-log,socket,stdout} unix sockets?
> Should rsyslogd listen on them?
>
> - /dev/log seems be now symlink to /run/systemd/journal/dev-log socket
> (as defined by systemd-journald-dev-log.socket) Should it be left
> (because now something sends to /run/systemd/journal/dev-log), or can
> be /run/systemd/journal/dev-log removed?
>
> Thanks in advance for some clarification about this.
> Franta Hanzlik
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Thanks, Franta Hanzlík
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