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authorJason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>2013-06-27 21:51:44 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-07-02 23:06:22 -0400
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@@ -73,14 +73,14 @@
</para>
<para>Log data collected by the journal is primarily
- text based but can also include binary data where
+ text-based but can also include binary data where
necessary. All objects stored in the journal can be up
to 2^64-1 bytes in size.</para>
<para>By default the journal stores log data in
<filename>/run/log/journal/</filename>. Since
- <filename>/run/</filename> is volatile log data is
- lost at reboot. To make the data persistent it
+ <filename>/run/</filename> is volatile, log data is
+ lost at reboot. To make the data persistent, it
is sufficient to create
<filename>/var/log/journal/</filename> where
<filename>systemd-journald</filename> will then store
@@ -89,8 +89,8 @@
<para><filename>systemd-journald</filename> will
forward all received log messages to the <constant>AF_UNIX</constant>
<constant>SOCK_DGRAM</constant> socket
- <filename>/run/systemd/journal/syslog</filename> (if it exists) which
- may be used by UNIX syslog daemons to process the data
+ <filename>/run/systemd/journal/syslog</filename>, if it exists, which
+ may be used by Unix syslog daemons to process the data
further.</para>
<para>See
@@ -161,15 +161,15 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Access Control</title>
- <para>Journal files are by default owned and readable
+ <para>Journal files are, by default, owned and readable
by the <literal>systemd-journal</literal> system group
- (but not writable). Adding a user to this group thus
+ but are not writable. Adding a user to this group thus
enables her/him to read the journal files.</para>
<para>By default, each logged in user will get her/his
own set of journal files in
<filename>/var/log/journal/</filename>. These files
- will not be owned by the user however, in order to
+ will not be owned by the user, however, in order to
avoid that the user can write to them
directly. Instead, file system ACLs are used to ensure
the user gets read access only.</para>