Re: Apache logs and systemd

[Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 13:15 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 12:30:37PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:

..,

If you want text log FILES (e.g. /var/log/whatever), install the rsyslog
package.  For rotation, install logrotate.

Thank you.

...

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.

I was not aware of that, thanks.

-Tom