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by rwmj 4363 days ago
You can enable text log files by installing 'rsyslog'. You only have to install the package, no further configuration is needed.
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ck2 4363 days ago
Would the server then do two writes, both to the binary log for systemd and then to rsyslog?

I suspect so, because systemd needs it's logs for internal analysis?

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mhurron 4363 days ago
And you should probably make sure that you do since every existing log analysis tool requires text logs.

Also, remote syslog, which journald doesn't support.

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SEJeff 4363 days ago
I'm afraid you're mistaken, please don't spread misinformation:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-jour...

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mhurron 4363 days ago
I was going on information from Red Hat that RHEL7 can't do that. Turns out, Red Hat was right, RHEL7 can't.

systemd-journald-remote was added with systemd 212, RHEL and CentOS ship with 208, so no, journald on RHEL7/CentOS7 can not do remote logging.

I also like completely ignoring how journald breaks every log analysis tool.

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SEJeff 4363 days ago
touche, you are correct. I'm sure it will be added as a backported enhancement at some point, but installing rsyslog is a yum install away and solves both needs.
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