On 2025-09-12 08:05:58 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > The other thing you might need to know is that you can get different > levels of verbosity when you run the journalctl command as root vs. > non-root. When you "only" got the Starting and Finished messages, > I'm betting you ran the journalctl command as a non-root user. Try it > as root.
Obviously, there are no differencies between root and non-root. It would have been silly to require to be root to get all the postfix related messages with "journalctl -u postfix", while "journalctl -u postfix\*" already give them without needing to be root. > If you want all of the "mail-related" messages to be in a single > file, install rsyslog and use the traditional human-readable log files > under /var/log. It is already installed on my mail server, and /var/log is what I actually use in general on this machine. I'm tempted to install rsyslog on my desktop machines too. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
