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This file is part of systemd.
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Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
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systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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Lesser General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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<refentry id="journald.conf">
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<refentryinfo>
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<title>journald.conf</title>
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<productname>systemd</productname>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<contrib>Developer</contrib>
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<firstname>Lennart</firstname>
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<surname>Poettering</surname>
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<email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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</refentryinfo>
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<refmeta>
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<refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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</refmeta>
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<refnamediv>
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<refname>journald.conf</refname>
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<refpurpose>Journal service configuration file</refpurpose>
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</refnamediv>
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<refsynopsisdiv>
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<para><filename>/etc/systemd/journald.conf</filename></para>
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</refsynopsisdiv>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Description</title>
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<para>This file configures various parameters of the
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systemd journal service,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Options</title>
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<para>All options are configured in the
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<literal>[Journal]</literal> section:</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>Storage=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>Controls where to
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store journal data. One of
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<literal>volatile</literal>,
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<literal>persistent</literal>,
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<literal>auto</literal> and
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<literal>none</literal>. If
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<literal>volatile</literal>, journal
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log data will be stored only in
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memory, i.e. below the
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<filename>/run/log/journal</filename>
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hierarchy (which is created if
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needed). If
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<literal>persistent</literal>, data will
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be stored preferably on disk,
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i.e. below the
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<filename>/var/log/journal</filename>
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hierarchy (which is created if
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needed), with a fallback to
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<filename>/run/log/journal</filename>
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(which is created if needed), during
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early boot and if the disk is not
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writable. <literal>auto</literal> is
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similar to
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<literal>persistent</literal> but the
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directory
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<filename>/var/log/journal</filename>
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is not created if needed, so that its
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existence controls where log data
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goes. <literal>none</literal> turns
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off all storage, all log data received
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will be dropped. Forwarding to other
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targets, such as the console, the
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kernel log buffer or a syslog daemon
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will still work however. Defaults to
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<literal>auto</literal>.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>Compress=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>Takes a boolean
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value. If enabled (the default), data
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objects that shall be stored in the
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journal and are larger than a certain
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threshold are compressed with the XZ
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compression algorithm before they are
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written to the file
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system.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>Seal=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>Takes a boolean
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value. If enabled (the default), and a
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sealing key is available (as created
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by
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>'s
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<option>--setup-keys</option>
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command), Forward Secure Sealing (FSS)
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for all persistent journal files is
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enabled. FSS is based on <ulink
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url="https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/397">Seekable
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Sequential Key Generators</ulink> by
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G. A. Marson and B. Poettering
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(doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40203-6_7)
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and may be used to protect journal files
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from unnoticed alteration.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>SplitMode=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>Controls whether to
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split up journal files per user. One
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of <literal>login</literal>,
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<literal>uid</literal> and
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<literal>none</literal>. If
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<literal>login</literal>, each logged-in
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user will get his own journal
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files, but systemd user IDs will log
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into the system journal. If
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<literal>uid</literal>, any user ID
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will get his own journal files
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regardless of whether it belongs to a
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system service or refers to a real
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logged in user. If
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<literal>none</literal>, journal files
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are not split up by user and all
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messages are instead stored in the single
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system journal. Note that splitting
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up journal files by user is only
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available for journals stored
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persistently. If journals are stored
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on volatile storage (see above), only a
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single journal file for all user IDs
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is kept. Defaults to
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<literal>login</literal>.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>RateLimitInterval=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>RateLimitBurst=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>Configures the rate
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limiting that is applied to all
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messages generated on the system. If,
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in the time interval defined by
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<varname>RateLimitInterval=</varname>,
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more messages than specified in
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<varname>RateLimitBurst=</varname> are
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logged by a service, all further
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messages within the interval are
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dropped until the interval is over. A
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message about the number of dropped
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messages is generated. This rate
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limiting is applied per-service, so
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that two services which log do not
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interfere with each other's
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limits. Defaults to 200 messages in
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10s. The time specification for
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<varname>RateLimitInterval=</varname>
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may be specified in the following
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units: <literal>s</literal>,
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<literal>min</literal>,
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<literal>h</literal>,
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<literal>ms</literal>,
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<literal>us</literal>. To turn off any
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kind of rate limiting, set either
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value to 0.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>SystemKeepFree=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>SystemMaxFileSize=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>RuntimeMaxUse=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>RuntimeKeepFree=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>RuntimeMaxFileSize=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>Enforce size limits on
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the journal files stored. The options
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prefixed with
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<literal>System</literal> apply to the
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journal files when stored on a
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persistent file system, more
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specifically
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<filename>/var/log/journal</filename>. The
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options prefixed with
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<literal>Runtime</literal> apply to
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the journal files when stored on a
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volatile in-memory file system, more
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specifically
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<filename>/run/log/journal</filename>. The
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former is used only when
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<filename>/var</filename> is mounted,
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writable, and the directory
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<filename>/var/log/journal</filename>
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exists. Otherwise, only the latter
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applies. Note that this means that
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during early boot and if the
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administrator disabled persistent
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logging, only the latter options apply,
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while the former apply if persistent
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logging is enabled and the system is
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fully booted
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up. <command>journalctl</command> and
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<command>systemd-journald</command>
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ignore all files with names not ending
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with <literal>.journal</literal> or
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<literal>.journal~</literal>, so only
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such files, located in the appropriate
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directories, are taken into account
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when calculating current disk usage.
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</para>
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<para><varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname>
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and <varname>RuntimeMaxUse=</varname>
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control how much disk space the
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journal may use up at maximum.
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<varname>SystemKeepFree=</varname> and
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<varname>RuntimeKeepFree=</varname>
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control how much disk space
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systemd-journald shall leave free for
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other uses.
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<command>systemd-journald</command>
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will respect both limits and use the
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smaller of the two values.</para>
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<para>The first pair defaults to 10%
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and the second to 15% of the size of
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the respective file system. If the
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file system is nearly full and either
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<varname>SystemKeepFree=</varname> or
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<varname>RuntimeKeepFree=</varname> is
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violated when systemd-journald is
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started, the value will be raised to
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percentage that is actually free. This
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means that if there was enough
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free space before and journal files were
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created, and subsequently something
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else causes the file system to fill
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up, journald will stop using more
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space, but it will not be removing
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existing files to go reduce footprint
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either.</para>
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<para><varname>SystemMaxFileSize=</varname>
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and
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<varname>RuntimeMaxFileSize=</varname>
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control how large individual journal
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files may grow at maximum. This
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influences the granularity in which
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disk space is made available through
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rotation, i.e. deletion of historic
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data. Defaults to one eighth of the
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values configured with
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<varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname> and
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<varname>RuntimeMaxUse=</varname>, so
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that usually seven rotated journal
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files are kept as history. Specify
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values in bytes or use K, M, G, T, P,
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E as units for the specified sizes
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(equal to 1024, 1024²,... bytes).
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Note that size limits are enforced
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synchronously when journal files are
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extended, and no explicit rotation
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step triggered by time is
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needed.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>MaxFileSec=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>The maximum time to
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store entries in a single journal
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file before rotating to the next
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one. Normally, time-based rotation
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should not be required as size-based
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rotation with options such as
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<varname>SystemMaxFileSize=</varname>
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should be sufficient to ensure that
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journal files do not grow without
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bounds. However, to ensure that not
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too much data is lost at once when old
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journal files are deleted, it might
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make sense to change this value from
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the default of one month. Set to 0 to
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turn off this feature. This setting
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takes time values which may be
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suffixed with the units
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<literal>year</literal>,
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<literal>month</literal>,
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<literal>week</literal>, <literal>day</literal>,
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<literal>h</literal> or <literal>m</literal>
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to override the default time unit of
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seconds.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>MaxRetentionSec=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>The maximum time to
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store journal entries. This
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controls whether journal files
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containing entries older then the
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specified time span are
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deleted. Normally, time-based deletion
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of old journal files should not be
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required as size-based deletion with
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options such as
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<varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname>
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should be sufficient to ensure that
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journal files do not grow without
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bounds. However, to enforce data
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retention policies, it might make sense
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to change this value from the
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default of 0 (which turns off this
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feature). This setting also takes
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time values which may be suffixed with
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the units <literal>year</literal>,
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<literal>month</literal>,
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<literal>week</literal>, <literal>day</literal>,
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<literal>h</literal> or <literal> m</literal>
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to override the default time unit of
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seconds.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>SyncIntervalSec=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>The timeout before
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synchronizing journal files to
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disk. After syncing, journal files are
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placed in the OFFLINE state. Note that
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syncing is unconditionally done
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immediately after a log message of
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priority CRIT, ALERT or EMERG has been
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logged. This setting hence applies
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only to messages of the levels ERR,
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WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG. The
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default timeout is 5 minutes.
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</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>ForwardToSyslog=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>ForwardToKMsg=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>ForwardToConsole=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>Control whether log
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messages received by the journal
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daemon shall be forwarded to a
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traditional syslog daemon, to the
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kernel log buffer (kmsg), or to the
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system console. These options take
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boolean arguments. If forwarding to
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syslog is enabled but no syslog daemon
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is running, the respective option has
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no effect. By default, only forwarding
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to syslog is enabled. These settings
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may be overridden at boot time with
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the kernel command line options
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<literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_syslog=</literal>,
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<literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_kmsg=</literal>
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and
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<literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_console=</literal>.
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When forwarding to the console, the
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TTY to log to can be changed
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with <varname>TTYPath=</varname>,
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described below.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>MaxLevelStore=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>MaxLevelSyslog=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>MaxLevelKMsg=</varname></term>
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<term><varname>MaxLevelConsole=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>Controls the maximum
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log level of messages that are stored
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on disk, forwarded to syslog, kmsg or
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the console (if that is enabled, see
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above). As argument, takes one of
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<literal>emerg</literal>,
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<literal>alert</literal>,
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<literal>crit</literal>,
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<literal>err</literal>,
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<literal>warning</literal>,
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<literal>notice</literal>,
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<literal>info</literal>,
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<literal>debug</literal> or integer
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values in the range of 0..7 (corresponding
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to the same levels). Messages equal or below
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the log level specified are
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stored/forwarded, messages above are
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dropped. Defaults to
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<literal>debug</literal> for
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<varname>MaxLevelStore=</varname> and
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<varname>MaxLevelSyslog=</varname>, to
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ensure that the all messages are
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written to disk and forwarded to
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syslog. Defaults to
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<literal>notice</literal> for
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<varname>MaxLevelKMsg=</varname> and
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<literal>info</literal> for
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<varname>MaxLevelConsole=</varname>.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>TTYPath=</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>Change the console TTY
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to use if
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<varname>ForwardToConsole=yes</varname>
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is used. Defaults to
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<filename>/dev/console</filename>.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>See Also</title>
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<para>
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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</refentry>
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