On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 12:30:37PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I’ve been running httpd for many years, long before systemd came along. > Somewhere in the various upgrades over the years I lost the old rotating > logs. > > Now I would like to initiate the rotating logs again. Can I do that with > systemd somehow?
If you want text log FILES (e.g. /var/log/whatever), install the rsyslog package. For rotation, install logrotate. Systemd by itself only creates binary journals, which have to be read with journalctl. There is absolutely no option to write text log files with systemd alone.
