Andrei POPESCU wrote
> On Mi, 31 mar 21, 17:33:47, Justin B Rye wrote:
>> +<section id="persistent journal">
>> + <title>Persistent systemd journal</title>
>> + <para>
>> + Systemd in bullseye activates its persistent journal functionality
>> + by default, storing its files in
>> + <filename>/var/log/journal/</filename>. See <ulink
>> +
>> url="&url-man;/bullseye/systemd/journald.conf.5.html">journald.conf(5)</ulink>
>> + for details.
>
> To me systemd-journald.service(8) seems like a better introduction.
And it does have a fairly conspicuous pointer towards journald.conf(5)
and Storage= in particular. Fair enough.
> It's probably also worth mentioning that on Debian the journal is
> readable by members of 'adm', in addition to the default
> 'systemd-journal' group.
So something like the attached:
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
diff --git a/en/whats-new.dbk b/en/whats-new.dbk
index 1e361e61..c271945c 100644
--- a/en/whats-new.dbk
+++ b/en/whats-new.dbk
@@ -182,6 +182,25 @@ linkend="obsolete"/>.
</para>
</section>
+<section id="persistent journal">
+ <title>Persistent systemd journal</title>
+ <para>
+ Systemd in bullseye activates its persistent journal functionality
+ by default, storing its files in
+ <filename>/var/log/journal/</filename>. See <ulink
+ url="&url-man;/bullseye/systemd/systemd-journald.service.8.html">systemd-journald.service(8)</ulink>
+ for details; note that on Debian the journal is readable for
+ members of <literal>adm</literal>, in addition to the default
+ <literal>systemd-journal</literal> group.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This should not interfere with any existing traditional logging
+ daemon such as <systemitem role="package">rsyslog</systemitem>, but
+ users who are not relying on special features of such a daemon may
+ wish to uninstall it and switch over to using only the journal.
+ </para>
+</section>
+
<section id="major-packages">
<title>Desktops and well known packages</title>
<para>
