Questions tagged [journald]
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redundant systemd-journal-remote for systemd-journal-upload instances
I'm using systemd-journal-upload on serveral nodes to forward their journals to a single systemd-journal-remote sink, loghost01:
/var/log/journal
├──
│ ├── system.journal
│ └── user-1000.journal
└── remote
├──…

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Remove nginx log prefix
I configured nginx to log in this format
log_format lalala '$remote_addr - $remote_user ';
access_log syslog:server=unix:/dev/log lalala;
However, every line starts with:
testserver nginx:
Despite it being absent from my log format.
This means…

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journald: extract part of a system journal into the journald format (i.e. for use with journalctl)
I have a situation where it would be really useful to attach the relevant bits of the system logs to a bug ticket. The system in question uses journald and I rather like using journalctl to inspect the logs, so what I'd like to do is extract the…

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CoreOS logs flooded with "Unknown permission status for class system"
I am trying to debug an issue, and I was wondering if this rings a bell to anyone: My logs get flooded with
audit: type=1107 audit(1479418315.344:1053): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 msg='Unknown…

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How to combat journal spam: unit-specific MaxLevel* settings?
I know about MaxLevelStore, MaxLevelSyslog, MaxLevelKMsg, MaxLevelConsole, MaxLevelWall but the problem with them is, they affect all units. Trouble is, not all developers *cough* kde *cough* gtk *cough* understand the difference between a warning…

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Is there a way to configure journald.conf through cloud config on CoreOS?
Try to find a way to automatically set SystemMaxUse for systemd-journald.service. I knew I can set it in /etc/systemd/journald.conf manually. But it will restore to default after CoreOS updates in my experience.
Also, configuring drop-ins in…

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Sending docker logs to logstash
I have a number of CoreOS servers on Amazon AWS and would like to collect events or logs from them and forward them onto my ELK stack provider logz.io.
Being a little new to the ELK stack, I'm a little lost on how to best get the data out. It was…

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Referencing journald fields when forwarding messages to syslog-ng
How can I change my syslog-ng template so that when the log originates from a systemd service / unit, the log message will include the unit's name?
Using ${PROGRAM} just shows the name of the executable that the systemd service called / that the…

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Journald: give users access to specific unit's logs
I'm taking care of a server (Debian Jessie) that several developers use for deploying and managing their work.
Now there is a script on this server (managed by one of the developers) that does some regular maintenance stuff and therefore should run…

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unable to query the systemd journal with journalctl
I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.2.GA on following system:
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.1 (Maipo)
# uname -a
Linux X 3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri May 15 21:38:46 EDT 2015 x86_64…

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Systemd service not logging
I have a systemd service. No logs appear from it despite my best efforts. This is the service file:
[Unit]
Description=Load Balancer
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/lb
ExecStart=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-20/bin/java --enable-preview -jar…

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Systemd service logs twice when it stops & starts. Anyway to disable?
I have a systemd (v249) service (my-script.service) which is run every minute by another systemd timer (my-script.timer). Everything's working fine. But systemd logs (to it's journald & thence to /var/log/syslog) the following 2 lines saying that it…

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stop kernel audit messages logged in syslog without disabling auditing
OS: CentOS 7
I am trying to figure out how audit (kaudit) events are logged in /var/log/messages.
I have enabled audit=1 in grub which means when the server boots, kernel auditing is enabled. This is the desired state for the particular system and…

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Delete old SSH session recordings
Recently I've been testing SSH Session recording in Fedora + Cockpit as a method of auditing. This has been working pretty well, but it records too much information, and more importantly, picked up a zfs send transfer, which filled the journald…

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Connecting to systemd service's standard output/error
I have a simple systemd service that runs for some time and then exits. It usually gets triggered by a systemd timer but sometimes I want to run it manually (well, from a script). The problem is - I need that script to output to terminal whatever my…

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