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diff --git a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml index 2860ae9769..d751f9b855 100644 --- a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml @@ -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> |