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<refentry id="journald.conf"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>journald.conf</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>journald.conf</refname>
<refname>journald.conf.d</refname>
<refname>journald@.conf</refname>
<refpurpose>Journal service configuration files</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<para><simplelist>
<member><filename>/etc/systemd/journald.conf</filename></member>
<member><filename>/run/systemd/journald.conf</filename></member>
<member><filename>/usr/local/lib/systemd/journald.conf</filename></member>
<member><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/journald.conf</filename></member>
<member><filename>/etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/*.conf</filename></member>
<member><filename>/run/systemd/journald.conf.d/*.conf</filename></member>
<member><filename>/usr/local/lib/systemd/journald.conf.d/*.conf</filename></member>
<member><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/journald.conf.d/*.conf</filename></member>
<member><filename>/etc/systemd/journald@<replaceable>NAMESPACE</replaceable>.conf</filename></member>
<member><filename>/etc/systemd/journald@<replaceable>NAMESPACE</replaceable>.conf.d/*.conf</filename></member>
<member><filename>/run/systemd/journald@<replaceable>NAMESPACE</replaceable>.conf.d/*.conf</filename></member>
<member><filename>/usr/local/lib/systemd/journald@<replaceable>NAMESPACE</replaceable>.conf.d/*.conf</filename></member>
<member><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/journald@<replaceable>NAMESPACE</replaceable>.conf.d/*.conf</filename></member>
</simplelist></para>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>These files configure various parameters of the systemd journal service,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.syntax</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for a general description of the syntax.</para>
<para>The <command>systemd-journald</command> instance managing the default namespace is configured by
<filename>/etc/systemd/journald.conf</filename> and associated drop-ins. Instances managing other
namespaces read <filename>/etc/systemd/journald@<replaceable>NAMESPACE</replaceable>.conf</filename>
and associated drop-ins with the namespace identifier filled in. This allows each namespace to carry
a distinct configuration. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details about journal namespaces.</para>
</refsect1>
<xi:include href="standard-conf.xml" xpointer="main-conf" />
<refsect1>
<title>Options</title>
<para>All options are configured in the
[Journal] section:</para>
<variablelist class='config-directives'>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Storage=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Controls where to store journal data. One of <literal>volatile</literal>,
<literal>persistent</literal>, <literal>auto</literal> and <literal>none</literal>. If
<literal>volatile</literal>, journal log data will be stored only in memory, i.e. below the
<filename>/run/log/journal</filename> hierarchy (which is created if needed). If
<literal>persistent</literal>, data will be stored preferably on disk, i.e. below the
<filename>/var/log/journal</filename> hierarchy (which is created if needed), with a fallback to
<filename>/run/log/journal</filename> (which is created if needed), during early boot and if the disk
is not writable. <literal>auto</literal> behaves like <literal>persistent</literal> if the
<filename>/var/log/journal</filename> directory exists, and <literal>volatile</literal> otherwise
(the existence of the directory controls the storage mode). <literal>none</literal> turns off all
storage, all log data received will be dropped (but forwarding to other targets, such as the console,
the kernel log buffer, or a syslog socket will still work). Defaults to <literal>auto</literal> in
the default journal namespace, and <literal>persistent</literal> in all others.</para>
<para>Note that journald will initially use volatile storage, until a call to
<command>journalctl --flush</command> (or sending <constant>SIGUSR1</constant> to journald) will cause
it to switch to persistent logging (under the conditions mentioned above). This is done automatically
on boot via <literal>systemd-journal-flush.service</literal>.</para>
<para>Note that when this option is changed to <literal>volatile</literal>, existing persistent data
is not removed. In the other direction,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> with
the <option>--flush</option> option may be used to move volatile data to persistent storage.</para>
<para>When journal namespacing (see <varname>LogNamespace=</varname> in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>) is
used, setting <varname>Storage=</varname> to <literal>volatile</literal> or <literal>auto</literal>
will not have an effect on the creation of the per-namespace logs directory in
<filename>/var/log/journal/</filename>, as the <filename>systemd-journald@.service</filename> service
file by default carries <varname>LogsDirectory=</varname>. To turn that off, add a unit file drop-in
file that sets <varname>LogsDirectory=</varname> to an empty string.</para>
<para>Note that per-user journal files are not supported unless persistent storage is enabled, thus
making <command>journalctl --user</command> unavailable.</para>
<para>The storage to use can also be specified via the <literal>journal.storage</literal>
credential. Values configured via configuration files take priority over values configured via the
credential.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v186"/>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Compress=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Can take a boolean value. If enabled (the
default), data objects that shall be stored in the journal
and are larger than the default threshold of 512 bytes are
compressed before they are written to the file system. It
can also be set to a number of bytes to specify the
compression threshold directly. Suffixes like K, M, and G
can be used to specify larger units.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Seal=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a boolean value. If enabled (the
default), and a sealing key is available (as created by
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>'s
<option>--setup-keys</option> command), Forward Secure Sealing
(FSS) for all persistent journal files is enabled. FSS is
based on <ulink
url="https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/397">Seekable Sequential Key
Generators</ulink> by G. A. Marson and B. Poettering
(doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40203-6_7) and may be used to protect
journal files from unnoticed alteration.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v189"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>SplitMode=</varname></term>
<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 (with UID outside the range of system users, dynamic service users,
and the nobody user) will each get their own journal files, and system users will log to the system journal.
See <ulink url="https://systemd.io/UIDS-GIDS">Users, Groups, UIDs and GIDs on systemd systems</ulink>
for more details about UID ranges.
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>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v190"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>RateLimitIntervalSec=</varname></term>
<term><varname>RateLimitBurst=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Configures the rate limiting that is applied
to all messages generated on the system. If, in the time
interval defined by <varname>RateLimitIntervalSec=</varname>,
more messages than specified in
<varname>RateLimitBurst=</varname> are logged by a service,
all further messages within the interval are dropped until the
interval is over. A message about the number of dropped
messages is generated. This rate limiting is applied
per-service, so that two services which log do not interfere
with each other's limits. Defaults to 10000 messages in 30s.
The time specification for
<varname>RateLimitIntervalSec=</varname> may be specified in the
following units: <literal>s</literal>, <literal>min</literal>,
<literal>h</literal>, <literal>ms</literal>,
<literal>us</literal>. To turn off any kind of rate limiting,
set either value to 0.</para>
<para>Note that the effective rate limit is multiplied by a
factor derived from the available free disk space for the journal.
Currently, this factor is calculated using the base 2 logarithm.</para>
<table>
<title>Example <varname>RateLimitBurst=</varname> rate
modifications by the available disk space</title>
<tgroup cols='2'>
<colspec colname='freespace' />
<colspec colname='multiplier' />
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Available Disk Space</entry>
<entry>Burst Multiplier</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>&lt;= 1MB</entry>
<entry>1</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>&lt;= 16MB</entry>
<entry>2</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>&lt;= 256MB</entry>
<entry>3</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>&lt;= 4GB</entry>
<entry>4</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>&lt;= 64GB</entry>
<entry>5</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>&lt;= 1TB</entry>
<entry>6</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<para>If a service provides rate limits for itself through
<varname>LogRateLimitIntervalSec=</varname> and/or <varname>LogRateLimitBurst=</varname>
in <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
those values will override the settings specified here.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname></term>
<term><varname>SystemKeepFree=</varname></term>
<term><varname>SystemMaxFileSize=</varname></term>
<term><varname>SystemMaxFiles=</varname></term>
<term><varname>RuntimeMaxUse=</varname></term>
<term><varname>RuntimeKeepFree=</varname></term>
<term><varname>RuntimeMaxFileSize=</varname></term>
<term><varname>RuntimeMaxFiles=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Enforce size limits on the journal files
stored. The options prefixed with <literal>System</literal>
apply to the journal files when stored on a persistent file
system, more specifically
<filename>/var/log/journal</filename>. The options prefixed
with <literal>Runtime</literal> apply to the journal files
when stored on a volatile in-memory file system, more
specifically <filename>/run/log/journal</filename>. The former
is used only when <filename>/var/</filename> is mounted,
writable, and the directory
<filename>/var/log/journal</filename> exists. Otherwise, only
the latter applies. Note that this means that during early
boot and if the administrator disabled persistent logging,
only the latter options apply, while the former apply if
persistent logging is enabled and the system is fully booted
up. <command>journalctl</command> and
<command>systemd-journald</command> ignore all files with
names not ending with <literal>.journal</literal> or
<literal>.journal~</literal>, so only such files, located in
the appropriate directories, are taken into account when
calculating current disk usage.</para>
<para><varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname> and
<varname>RuntimeMaxUse=</varname> control how much disk space
the journal may use up at most.
<varname>SystemKeepFree=</varname> and
<varname>RuntimeKeepFree=</varname> control how much disk
space systemd-journald shall leave free for other uses.
<command>systemd-journald</command> will respect both limits
and use the smaller of the two values.</para>
<para>The first pair defaults to 10% and the second to 15% of
the size of the respective file system, but each value is
capped to 4G. If the file system is nearly full and either
<varname>SystemKeepFree=</varname> or
<varname>RuntimeKeepFree=</varname> are violated when
systemd-journald is started, the limit will be raised to the
percentage that is actually free. This means that if there was
enough free space before and journal files were created, and
subsequently something else causes the file system to fill up,
journald will stop using more space, but it will not be
removing existing files to reduce the footprint again,
either. Also note that only archived files are deleted to reduce the
space occupied by journal files. This means that, in effect, there might
still be more space used than <varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname> or
<varname>RuntimeMaxUse=</varname> limit after a vacuuming operation is
complete.</para>
<para><varname>SystemMaxFileSize=</varname> and <varname>RuntimeMaxFileSize=</varname> control how
large individual journal files may grow at most. This influences the granularity in which disk space
is made available through rotation, i.e. deletion of historic data. Defaults to one eighth of the
values configured with <varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname> and <varname>RuntimeMaxUse=</varname> capped
to 128M, so that usually seven rotated journal files are kept as history. If the journal compact
mode is enabled (enabled by default), the maximum file size is capped to 4G.</para>
<para>Specify values in bytes or use K, M, G, T, P, E as units for the specified sizes (equal to
1024, 1024², … bytes). Note that size limits are enforced synchronously when journal files are
extended, and no explicit rotation step triggered by time is needed.</para>
<para><varname>SystemMaxFiles=</varname> and
<varname>RuntimeMaxFiles=</varname> control how many
individual journal files to keep at most. Note that only
archived files are deleted to reduce the number of files until
this limit is reached; active files will stay around. This
means that, in effect, there might still be more journal files
around in total than this limit after a vacuuming operation is
complete. This setting defaults to 100.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>MaxFileSec=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The maximum time to store entries in a single
journal file before rotating to the next one. Normally,
time-based rotation should not be required as size-based
rotation with options such as
<varname>SystemMaxFileSize=</varname> should be sufficient to
ensure that journal files do not grow without bounds. However,
to ensure that not too much data is lost at once when old
journal files are deleted, it might make sense to change this
value from the default of one month. Set to 0 to turn off this
feature. This setting takes time values which may be suffixed
with the units <literal>year</literal>,
<literal>month</literal>, <literal>week</literal>,
<literal>day</literal>, <literal>h</literal> or
<literal>m</literal> to override the default time unit of
seconds.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v195"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>MaxRetentionSec=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The maximum time to store journal entries.
This controls whether journal files containing entries older
than the specified time span are deleted. Normally, time-based
deletion of old journal files should not be required as
size-based deletion with options such as
<varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname> should be sufficient to
ensure that journal files do not grow without bounds. However,
to enforce data retention policies, it might make sense to
change this value from the default of 0 (which turns off this
feature). This setting also takes time values which may be
suffixed with the units <literal>year</literal>,
<literal>month</literal>, <literal>week</literal>,
<literal>day</literal>, <literal>h</literal> or <literal>
m</literal> to override the default time unit of
seconds.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v195"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>SyncIntervalSec=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The timeout before synchronizing journal files
to disk. After syncing, journal files are placed in the
OFFLINE state. Note that syncing is unconditionally done
immediately after a log message of priority CRIT, ALERT or
EMERG has been logged. This setting hence applies only to
messages of the levels ERR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG. The
default timeout is 5 minutes. </para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v199"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>ForwardToSyslog=</varname></term>
<term><varname>ForwardToKMsg=</varname></term>
<term><varname>ForwardToConsole=</varname></term>
<term><varname>ForwardToWall=</varname></term>
<term><varname>ForwardToSocket=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Control whether log messages received by the journal daemon shall be forwarded to a
traditional syslog daemon, to the kernel log buffer (kmsg), to the system console, sent as wall
messages to all logged-in users or sent over a socket. These options take boolean arguments except
for <literal>ForwardToSocket=</literal> which takes an address instead. If forwarding
to syslog is enabled but nothing reads messages from the socket, forwarding to syslog has no effect. By default,
only forwarding to wall is enabled. These settings may be overridden at boot time with the kernel
command line options <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_syslog</literal>,
<literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_kmsg</literal>,
<literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_console</literal>, and
<literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_wall</literal>. If the option name is specified without
<literal>=</literal> and the following argument, true is assumed. Otherwise, the argument is parsed
as a boolean.</para>
<para>The socket forwarding address can be specified with the credential
<literal>journal.forward_to_socket</literal>. The following socket types are supported:</para>
<para><simplelist type="inline">
<member><constant>AF_INET</constant> (e.g. <literal>192.168.0.11:4444</literal>)</member>
<member><constant>AF_INET6</constant> (e.g. <literal>[2001:db8::ff00:42:8329]:4444</literal>)</member>
<member><constant>AF_UNIX</constant> (e.g. <literal>/run/host/journal/socket</literal>)</member>
<member><constant>AF_VSOCK</constant> (e.g. <literal>vsock:2:1234</literal>)</member>
</simplelist></para>
<para>When forwarding to the console, the TTY to log to can be changed with
<varname>TTYPath=</varname>, described below.</para>
<para>When forwarding to the kernel log buffer (kmsg), make sure to select a suitably large size for
the log buffer, for example by adding <literal>log_buf_len=8M</literal> to the kernel command line.
<command>systemd</command> will automatically disable kernel's rate-limiting applied to userspace
processes (equivalent to setting <literal>printk.devkmsg=on</literal>).</para>
<para>When forwarding over a socket the <ulink url="https://systemd.io/JOURNAL_EXPORT_FORMATS/#journal-export-format">
Journal Export Format</ulink> is used when sending over the wire. Notably this includes the metadata
field <varname>__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP</varname> so that
<command>systemd-journal-remote</command> (see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journal-remote.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
can be used to receive the forwarded journal entries.</para>
<para>Note: Forwarding is performed synchronously within journald, and may significantly affect its
performance. This is particularly relevant when using ForwardToConsole=yes in cloud environments,
where the console is often a slow, virtual serial port.
Since journald is implemented as a conventional single-process daemon, forwarding to a completely
hung console will block journald. This can have a cascading effect resulting in any services synchronously
logging to the blocked journal also becoming blocked. Unless actively debugging/developing something, it's
generally preferable to setup a <command>journalctl --follow</command> style service redirected to the
console, instead of ForwardToConsole=yes, for production use.</para>
</listitem>
<para>Note: Using <varname>ForwardToSocket=</varname> over IPv4/IPv6 links can be very slow due to the synchronous nature of the sockets.
Take care to ensure your link is a low-latency local link if possible. Typically IP networking is not available everywhere
journald runs, e.g. in the initrd during boot. Consider using <constant>AF_VSOCK</constant>/<constant>AF_UNIX</constant> sockets for this if possible.
</para>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>MaxLevelStore=</varname></term>
<term><varname>MaxLevelSyslog=</varname></term>
<term><varname>MaxLevelKMsg=</varname></term>
<term><varname>MaxLevelConsole=</varname></term>
<term><varname>MaxLevelWall=</varname></term>
<term><varname>MaxLevelSocket=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Controls the maximum log level of messages that are stored in the journal, forwarded
to syslog, kmsg, the console, the wall, or a socket (if that is enabled, see above). As argument,
takes one of <literal>emerg</literal>, <literal>alert</literal>, <literal>crit</literal>,
<literal>err</literal>, <literal>warning</literal>, <literal>notice</literal>,
<literal>info</literal>, <literal>debug</literal>, or integer values in the range of 07
(corresponding to the same levels). Messages equal or below the log level specified are
stored/forwarded, messages above are dropped. Defaults to <literal>debug</literal> for
<varname>MaxLevelStore=</varname>, <varname>MaxLevelSyslog=</varname> and
<varname>MaxLevelSocket=</varname>, to ensure that the all messages are stored in the journal,
forwarded to syslog and the socket if one exists. Defaults to <literal>notice</literal> for
<varname>MaxLevelKMsg=</varname>, <literal>info</literal> for <varname>MaxLevelConsole=</varname>,
and <literal>emerg</literal> for <varname>MaxLevelWall=</varname>. These settings may be overridden
at boot time with the kernel command line options
<literal>systemd.journald.max_level_store=</literal>,
<literal>systemd.journald.max_level_syslog=</literal>,
<literal>systemd.journald.max_level_kmsg=</literal>,
<literal>systemd.journald.max_level_console=</literal>,
<literal>systemd.journald.max_level_wall=</literal>,
<literal>systemd.journald.max_level_socket=</literal>.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v185"/>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>ReadKMsg=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a boolean value. If enabled <command>systemd-journal</command> processes
<filename>/dev/kmsg</filename> messages generated by the kernel. In the default journal namespace
this option is enabled by default, it is disabled in all others.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v235"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Audit=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a boolean value. If enabled <command>systemd-journald</command> will turn on
kernel auditing on start-up. If disabled it will turn it off. If unset it will neither enable nor
disable it, leaving the previous state unchanged. This means if another tool turns on auditing even
if <command>systemd-journald</command> left it off, it will still collect the generated
messages. Defaults to on.</para>
<para>Note that this option does not control whether <command>systemd-journald</command> collects
generated audit records, it just controls whether it tells the kernel to generate them. If you need
to prevent <command>systemd-journald</command> from collecting the generated messages, the socket
unit <literal>systemd-journald-audit.socket</literal> can be disabled and in this case this setting
is without effect.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v246"/>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>TTYPath=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Change the console TTY to use if
<varname>ForwardToConsole=yes</varname> is used. Defaults to
<filename>/dev/console</filename>.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v185"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>LineMax=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The maximum line length to permit when converting stream logs into record logs. When a systemd
unit's standard output/error are connected to the journal via a stream socket, the data read is split into
individual log records at newline (<literal>\n</literal>, ASCII 10) and <constant>NUL</constant> characters. If no such delimiter is
read for the specified number of bytes a hard log record boundary is artificially inserted, breaking up overly
long lines into multiple log records. Selecting overly large values increases the possible memory usage of the
Journal daemon for each stream client, as in the worst case the journal daemon needs to buffer the specified
number of bytes in memory before it can flush a new log record to disk. Also note that permitting overly large
line maximum line lengths affects compatibility with traditional log protocols as log records might not fit
anymore into a single <constant>AF_UNIX</constant> or <constant>AF_INET</constant> datagram. Takes a size in
bytes. If the value is suffixed with K, M, G or T, the specified size is parsed as Kilobytes, Megabytes,
Gigabytes, or Terabytes (with the base 1024), respectively. Defaults to 48K, which is relatively large but
still small enough so that log records likely fit into network datagrams along with extra room for
metadata. Note that values below 79 are not accepted and will be bumped to 79.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v235"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Forwarding to traditional syslog daemons</title>
<para>
Journal events can be transferred to a different logging daemon
in two different ways. With the first method, messages are
immediately forwarded to a socket
(<filename>/run/systemd/journal/syslog</filename>), where the
traditional syslog daemon can read them. This method is
controlled by the <varname>ForwardToSyslog=</varname> option. With a
second method, a syslog daemon behaves like a normal journal
client, and reads messages from the journal files, similarly to
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
With this, messages do not have to be read immediately,
which allows a logging daemon which is only started late in boot
to access all messages since the start of the system. In
addition, full structured meta-data is available to it. This
method of course is available only if the messages are stored in
a journal file at all. So it will not work if
<varname>Storage=none</varname> is set. It should be noted that
usually the <emphasis>second</emphasis> method is used by syslog
daemons, so the <varname>Storage=</varname> option, and not the
<varname>ForwardToSyslog=</varname> option, is relevant for them.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para><simplelist type="inline">
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
</simplelist></para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>