On Mi, 31 mar 21, 17:33:47, Justin B Rye wrote: > Paul Gevers wrote: > >> On 18-03-2021 11:41, Michael Biebl wrote: > >>> Yes, the persistent journal is enabled on upgrades and new installations. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >>> I'm a bit uncertain, whether I should go into that much detail in the > >>> release notes, especially wrt to rsyslog. But on the other hand, this > >>> way our users are notified in advance that this change is coming. > >> > >> I would say, keep it short. I.e. tell we change the default (it only the > >> default, right?) on upgrades and how it can be disabled again. > > > > Did you already have inspiration? We can also try to write up something, > > but I really appreciate it when maintainers do the initial proposal. > > If nobody knowledgeable has had the time to come up with anything, > maybe the version attached will inspire either improvements or just an > urge to replace it with something completely different. > > (The man page pointer should be enough that we don't also need to > spell out a "disabling the journal HOWTO".) > diff --git a/en/whats-new.dbk b/en/whats-new.dbk > index 1e361e61..399e1977 100644 > --- a/en/whats-new.dbk > +++ b/en/whats-new.dbk > @@ -182,6 +182,23 @@ 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/journald.conf.5.html">journald.conf(5)</ulink> > + for details. To me systemd-journald.service(8) seems like a better introduction. 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. > + </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> Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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