Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:41 AM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > > > Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > > Am Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:41:50 +0100 > > > schrieb lee <l...@yagibdah.de>: > > > > > > > Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:49:54 +0100, lee wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> > I wonder if the OP is using systemd and trying to read the > journal > > > > >> > files? > > > > >> > > > > >> Nooo, I hate systemd ... > > > > >> > > > > >> What good are log files you can't read? > > > > > > > > > > You can't read syslog-ng log files without some reading software, > usually > > > > > a combination of cat, grep and less. systemd does it all with > journalctl. > > > > > > > > > > There are good reasons to not use systemd, this isn't one of them. > > > > > > > > To me it is one of the good reasons, and an important one. Plain text > > > > can usually always be read without further ado, be it from rescue > > > > systems you booted or with software available on different operating > > > > systems. It can be also be processed with scripts and sent as email. > > > > You can probably even read it on your cell phone. You can still read > > > > log files that were created 20 years ago when they are plain text. > > > > > > > > Can you do all that with the binary files created by systemd? I can't > > > > even read them on a working system. > > > > > > What Canek and Rich already said is good, but I'll just add this: it's > not like > > > you can't run a classic syslog implementation alongside the systemd > journal. > > > On my systems, by *default*, syslog-ng kept working as usual, getting > the logs > > > from the systemd journal. If you want to go further, you can even > configure > > > the journal to not store logs permanently, so that you *only* end up > with > > > plain-text logs on your system (Duncan on gentoo-amd64 went this way). > > > > > > So no, the format that the systemd journal uses is most decidedly *not* > a reason > > > against using systemd. > > > > > > Personally, I'm probably going to uninstall syslog-ng, because > journalctl is > > > *such* a nice way to read logs, so why run something whose output I'll > never > > > read again? I recommend reading > > > http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/journalctl.html for examples of the > kind of > > > stuff you can do that would be cumbersome, if not *impossible* with > regular > > > syslog. > > > > Except that I get lots of messages about the system journal missing > > messages when forwarding to syslog, so how can I make sure this does not > > happening? > > Could you please show those messages? systemd sends *everything* to the > journal, and then the journal (optionally) can send it too to a regular > syslog. In that sense, it's impossible for the journal to miss any message. > > The only way in which the journal could miss messages is at very early boot > stages; but with a proper initramfs (like the ones generated with dracut), > even those get caught. You get to put an instance of systemd and the > journal inside the initramfs, and so it's available almost from the > beginning. > > And if you use gummiboot, then you can even log from the moment the UEFI > firmware comes to life.
So, I get lots of messages in my regular syslog-ng /var/log/messages like the following: Feb 23 12:47:52 ccs.covici.com systemd-journal[715]: Forwarding to syslog missed 15 messages. So, I saw a post on Google to up the queue length, and I uped it to 200, but no joy, still get the messages like the one above. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com