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diff --git a/man/journald.conf.xml b/man/journald.conf.xml index fef4fde898..a9562c121a 100644 --- a/man/journald.conf.xml +++ b/man/journald.conf.xml @@ -129,23 +129,15 @@ <varlistentry> <term><varname>SplitMode=</varname></term> - <listitem><para>Controls whether to split up journal files per user. Split-up journal files are primarily - useful for access control: on UNIX/Linux access control is managed per file, and the journal daemon will assign - users read access to their journal files. This setting takes one of <literal>uid</literal>, - <literal>login</literal> or <literal>none</literal>. If <literal>uid</literal>, all regular users will get each - their own journal files regardless of whether their processes possess login sessions 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. Note that in this mode, user code running outside of any login session will log into the system log - instead of the split-out user logs. Most importantly, this means that information about core dumps of user - processes collected via the - <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-coredump</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> subsystem - will end up in the system logs instead of the user logs, and thus not be accessible to the owning users. If - <literal>none</literal>, journal files are not split up by user and all messages are instead stored in the - single system journal. In this mode unprivileged users generally do not have access to their own log data. 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 is kept. Defaults to - <literal>uid</literal>.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Controls whether to split up journal files per user, either <literal>uid</literal> or + <literal>none</literal>. Split journal files are primarily useful for access control: on UNIX/Linux access + control is managed per file, and the journal daemon will assign users read access to their journal files. If + <literal>uid</literal>, all regular users will each get their own journal files, and system users will log to + 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. In this mode unprivileged users generally do not have access to + their own log data. Note that splitting up journal files by user is only available for journals stored + persistently. If journals are stored on volatile storage (see <varname>Storage=</varname> above), only a single + journal file is used. Defaults to <literal>uid</literal>.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |