Persistent Log Storage

[wilkinsaf]

I am looking to have journald logs persist.
I understand that journald stores logs under /var/log/journal
However, I can see that /var/log/ is under volatile storage.

I understand that I should be logging to /data if I would like things to persist. Is there a configuration that ModalAI recommends to log service file output on VOXL?

[wilkinsaf]

I might end up having to specify specific log files to write to in my .service files per
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html#StandardOutput=

[wilkinsaf]

Was going to use syslog, but saw that the service file points to null. Was wondering if this is done on purpose?

[wilkinsaf]

Thinking an easier way here is to just change the symbolic link here

and then modify journald config file to make sure we do not fill up storage with logs

[wilkinsaf]

This seems to work, but not from bootup.
Usually, the systemd-journal-flush.service watches for /var/log/journal to be mounted and then switches logging over to that folder, but that does not seem to be happening.

Instead, I have to restart the systemd-journald.service to get it to log in the correct spot.

Maybe because it is a symbolic link, and that is why the service does not see it mounted.... going to try and test that theory

[wilkinsaf]

Yeah, all systemd-journal-flush.service is doing is running journalctl --flush which is not doing anything when run manually