Domesticating applications, OpenBSD style

Posted Jul 22, 2015 19:39 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Domesticating applications, OpenBSD style by dlang
Parent article: Domesticating applications, OpenBSD style

… but I'm not locked into the "all logs in one file on the local system" mentality of journald …

I'm pretty sure we have been over this before but that is not actually how journald works. Read journald.conf(5).

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Domesticating applications, OpenBSD style

Posted Jul 22, 2015 20:04 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

we had not covered this particular aspect before, but the options listed (SplitMode= One of "uid", "login" and "none") is still pretty limited.

Domesticating applications, OpenBSD style

Posted Jul 22, 2015 23:31 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

Journald will rotate log files as required to limit their size, or at fixed intervals. Very old journal files can be automatically discarded. Querying still works across all the reachable files. Also, journald does support remote logging – the journal files do not need to remain on the local machine.