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authorAnthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org>2012-11-15 10:10:41 -0500
committerAnthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org>2012-11-15 10:10:41 -0500
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Fork of Original Code Base: anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd
This is the initial fork of the code base from freedsktop.org. The code is provided here as a reference of the initial starting point and for possible future checkouts after a large portion of this code is removed. Merge git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd
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+You are looking for the traditional text log files in @VARLOGDIR@, and
+they are gone?
+
+Here's an explanation on what's going on:
+
+You are running a systemd-based OS where traditional syslog has been
+replaced with the Journal. The journal stores the same (and more)
+information as classic syslog. To make use of the journal and access
+the collected log data simply invoke "journalctl", which will output
+the logs in the identical text-based format the syslog files in
+@VARLOGDIR@ used to be. For further details, please refer to
+journalctl(1).
+
+Alternatively, consider installing one of the traditional syslog
+implementations available for your distribution, which will generate
+the classic log files for you. Syslog implementations such as
+syslog-ng or rsyslog may be installed side-by-side with the journal
+and will continue to function the way they always did.
+
+Thank you!
+
+Further reading:
+ man:journalctl(1)
+ man:systemd-journald.service(8)
+ man:journald.conf(5)
+ http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-journal.html