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diff --git a/man/journald.conf.xml b/man/journald.conf.xml index 59c95d7d34..a9690e8138 100644 --- a/man/journald.conf.xml +++ b/man/journald.conf.xml @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ <para><varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname> and <varname>RuntimeMaxUse=</varname> control how much disk space - the journal may use up at maximum. + the journal may use up at most. <varname>SystemKeepFree=</varname> and <varname>RuntimeKeepFree=</varname> control how much disk space systemd-journald shall leave free for other uses. @@ -220,12 +220,12 @@ enough free space before and journal files were created, and subsequently something else causes the file system to fill up, journald will stop using more space, but it will not be - removing existing files to reduce footprint again + removing existing files to reduce the footprint again, either.</para> <para><varname>SystemMaxFileSize=</varname> and <varname>RuntimeMaxFileSize=</varname> control how large - individual journal files may grow at maximum. This influences + individual journal files may grow at most. This influences the granularity in which disk space is made available through rotation, i.e. deletion of historic data. Defaults to one eighth of the values configured with @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ <para><varname>SystemMaxFiles=</varname> and <varname>RuntimeMaxFiles=</varname> control how many - individual journal files to keep at maximum. Note that only + individual journal files to keep at most. Note that only archived files are deleted to reduce the number of files until this limit is reached; active files will stay around. This means that, in effect, there might still be more journal files @@ -375,15 +375,15 @@ <para> Journal events can be transferred to a different logging daemon - in two different ways. In the first method, messages are + in two different ways. With the first method, messages are immediately forwarded to a socket (<filename>/run/systemd/journal/syslog</filename>), where the traditional syslog daemon can read them. This method is - controlled by <varname>ForwardToSyslog=</varname> option. In a + controlled by the <varname>ForwardToSyslog=</varname> option. With a second method, a syslog daemon behaves like a normal journal client, and reads messages from the journal files, similarly to <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>. - In this method, messages do not have to be read immediately, + With this, messages do not have to be read immediately, which allows a logging daemon which is only started late in boot to access all messages since the start of the system. In addition, full structured meta-data is available to it. This |