On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 2:26 PM SCOTT FIELDS <scott.fie...@kyndryl.com> wrote:
>
> Because of the documentation for the 'logsdirectory' option for unit files.
>
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.exec.html
>
> --
>
> RuntimeDirectory=, StateDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, LogsDirectory=,
> ConfigurationDirectory=
They are unrelated to the journal. These options just make these
locations available (usually, in a private unit namespace). What your
service does with these locations is entirely up to you.
> These options take a whitespace-separated list of directory names. The
> specified directory names must be relative, and may not include "..". If set,
> when the unit is started, one or more directories by the specified names will
> be created (including their parents) below the locations defined in the
> following table. Also, the corresponding environment variable will be defined
> with the full paths of the directories. If multiple directories are set, then
> in the environment variable the paths are concatenated with colon (":").
> Table 2. Automatic directory creation and environment variables
> Directory Below path for system units Below path for user units Environment
> variable set
> RuntimeDirectory= /run/ $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY
> StateDirectory= /var/lib/ $XDG_STATE_HOME $STATE_DIRECTORY
> CacheDirectory= /var/cache/ $XDG_CACHE_HOME $CACHE_DIRECTORY
> LogsDirectory= /var/log/ $XDG_STATE_HOME/log/ $LOGS_DIRECTORY
> ConfigurationDirectory= /etc/ $XDG_CONFIG_HOME $CONFIGURATION_DIRECTORY
> --
>
> Granted...this states the directory will be created in the case of user
> units...and does not state that it would actually put the log there. But it
> doesn't make a lot of sense to state the given behavior and not use it
> ________________________________
> From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidj...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2024 11:08 PM
> To: SCOTT FIELDS <scott.fie...@kyndryl.com>;
> systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org <systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [systemd-devel] Trying to resolve user level systemd
> unit journal not writing to local user journal
>
> On 12.08.2024 22:36, SCOTT FIELDS wrote:
> > OS = Fedora 39
> > Systemd version = 254.13
> >
> > I have an application running via a user level system unit file.
> >
> > The UID is > 999.
> >
> > I'm expecting the application journal entries to be a local entry in
> > $XDG_STATE_HOME/log, but it's using the user level journal in
> > /var/log/journal.
> >
>
> Why do you expecting that?
>
> > FYI, I'm not expressly setting XDG_STATE_HOME, since it heavily implies it
> > will default to '$HOME /. local/state'
> >
> > I not yet tested expressly setting XDG_STATE_HOME in the unit file
> > environment variables, since I really shouldn't have to.
> >
> > My understanding of the behavior is it SHOULD be writing this to the
> > XDG_STATE_HOME location. If it's correct, how I can be troubleshoot why
> > it's not?
> >
> >
> > Scott Fields
> >
> > Kyndryl
> >
> > Senior Lead SRE – BNSF
> >
> > 817-593-5038 (BNSF)
> >
> > scott.fie...@kyndryl.com<mailto:scott.fie...@kyndryl.com>
> >
> > scott.fie...@bnsf.com<mailto:scott.fie...@bnsf.com>
> >
> >
> >
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