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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-06-19 12:36:35 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-06-19 12:38:45 +0200
commitedc3797f7cd9e37c24e5241cac3263e7c918f732 (patch)
tree789f94f81ffa82ccaacabfc857f1c774f4d88d3c /man
parent9eecdbc354c180885f10415b01fee126f3bb34aa (diff)
journald: make SplitMode=uid the default
Now that we actually can distuingish system and normal users there's no point in taking session information into account anymore when splitting up logs. This has the beenfit with that coredump information will actually end up in each user's own journal.
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-rw-r--r--man/journald.conf.xml39
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/man/journald.conf.xml b/man/journald.conf.xml
index 5cd09a217e..046609e401 100644
--- a/man/journald.conf.xml
+++ b/man/journald.conf.xml
@@ -146,29 +146,30 @@
<listitem><para>Controls whether to
split up journal files per user. One
- of <literal>login</literal>,
- <literal>uid</literal> and
- <literal>none</literal>. If
- <literal>login</literal>, each logged-in
- user will get his own journal
- files, but systemd user IDs will log
- into the system journal. If
- <literal>uid</literal>, any user ID
- will get his own journal files
- regardless of whether it belongs to a
- system service or refers to a real
- logged in user. If
+ of <literal>uid</literal>,
+ <literal>login</literal> and
+ <literal>none</literal>. If
+ <literal>uid</literal>, all users will
+ get each their own journal files
+ regardless of whether they possess a
+ login session or not, however system
+ users will log into the system
+ journal. If <literal>login</literal>,
+ actually logged-in users will get each
+ their own journal files, but users
+ without login session and system users
+ will log into the system journal. If
<literal>none</literal>, journal files
are not split up by user and all
- messages are instead stored in the single
- system journal. Note that splitting
- up journal files by user is only
- available for journals stored
+ messages are instead stored in the
+ single system journal. Note that
+ splitting up journal files by user is
+ only available for journals stored
persistently. If journals are stored
- on volatile storage (see above), only a
- single journal file for all user IDs
+ on volatile storage (see above), only
+ a single journal file for all user IDs
is kept. Defaults to
- <literal>login</literal>.</para></listitem>
+ <literal>uid</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>