Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

[Bernd Zeimetz]

On 2/1/20 2:36 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
>>
>> with today's upload of systemd 244.1-2 I finally enabled persistent
>> journal by default [1]. It has been a long requested feature.
>>
>> The package will create a directory /var/log/journal on upgrades and new
>> installs, which enables persistent journal in so called auto mode.
> 
> Fine for new installations, but please *don't* do this for
> upgrades. Those people with existing logging setups will be surprised
> by this.


Yes, Steve is right here, please don't mess with existing
configurations. In most cases the result would not be what people wanted
to have.


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