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Systemd Journal

Summary

Make Systemd Journal the new default syslog.

Owner

Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora 18
  • Last updated:
  • Percentage of completion: 50

Detailed Description

As of systemd v38+ systemd comes with it's own syslog named Journal.

Benefit to Fedora

TODO

Scope

  • Disable rsyslog by default ( minor changes ).

How To Test

Trigger a logging event and test systemd-journalctl with various command line switches.


User Experience

TODO

Dependencies

Depends on the presence of systemd v38+ being installed which is the case for Fedora 17 and onwards.

Contingency Plan

re-enable rsyslog.

Documentation

  • It's recommended that documentation is updated to reflect usage of the native systemd journal command and it's configuration file

Release Notes

There shouldn't be anything we need to specifically say other than highlighting the change and howto re-enable rsyslog.

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