Wednesday 11 January 2017

Re: Make systemd journal persistent | remove rsyslog (by default)

On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 08:29 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Jamie Strandboge [2017-01-10 16:27 -0600]:
> >
> > Remote logging. Rsyslog is far superior in this regard. Granted, remote
> > logging
> > is not enabled by default but it is a requirement in many environments.
> The systemd-journal-remote package does provide the necessary tools and is
> reasonably flexible (push or pull, builtin https or using arbitrary ports
> which
> you e. g.  could forward through ssh). It might not be as flexible as rsyslog,
> but as one needs to set up remote logging manually anyway, you always have the
> possibility of picking rsyslog, journal, or even something else.
>
Yes, but the 'logged to' system needs to be running systemd[1]. rsyslog speaks
the standard syslog protocol on 514/udp, but systemd-journal does not.

[1]https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journal-remote.html

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