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From 24d007a0a8a77a6b75c6c7a403fc8d107875ebdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
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Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 16:20:51 -0500
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Subject: [PATCH] man: document forwarding to syslog better
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147651
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Cherry-picked from: 589532d0
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Resolves: #1177336
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---
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 man/journald.conf.xml | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
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 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/man/journald.conf.xml b/man/journald.conf.xml
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index 85146b0d82..abfe3130dd 100644
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--- a/man/journald.conf.xml
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+++ b/man/journald.conf.xml
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@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
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         needed, so that its existence controls where log data goes.
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         <literal>none</literal> turns off all storage, all log data
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         received will be dropped. Forwarding to other targets, such as
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-        the console, the kernel log buffer or a syslog daemon will
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+        the console, the kernel log buffer, or a syslog socket will
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         still work however. Defaults to
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         <literal>auto</literal>.</para></listitem>
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       </varlistentry>
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@@ -220,27 +220,19 @@
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         journald will stop using more space, but it will not be
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         removing existing files to go reduce footprint 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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+        <para><varname>SystemMaxFileSize=</varname> and
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+        <varname>RuntimeMaxFileSize=</varname> control how large
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+        individual journal files may grow at maximum. This influences
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+        the granularity in which disk space is made available through
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+        rotation, i.e. deletion of historic data. Defaults to one
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+        eighth of the 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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+        <varname>RuntimeMaxUse=</varname>, so that usually seven
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+        rotated journal files are kept as history. Specify values in
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+        bytes or use K, M, G, T, P, E as units for the specified sizes
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+        (equal to 1024, 1024²,... bytes).  Note that size limits are
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+        enforced synchronously when journal files are extended, and no
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+        explicit rotation step triggered by time is
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         needed.</para></listitem>
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       </varlistentry>
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@@ -308,13 +300,13 @@
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         daemon, to the kernel log buffer (kmsg), to the system
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         console, or sent as wall messages to all logged-in users.
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         These options take boolean arguments. If forwarding to syslog
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-        is enabled but no syslog daemon is running, the respective
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-        option has no effect. By default, only forwarding wall is
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-        enabled. These settings may be overridden at boot time with
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-        the kernel command line options
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+        is enabled but nothing reads messages from the socket,
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+        forwarding to syslog has no effect. By default, only
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+        forwarding to wall is enabled. These settings may be
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+        overridden at boot time with 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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-        <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_console=</literal> and
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+        <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_console=</literal>, and
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         <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_wall=</literal>. When
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         forwarding to the console, the TTY to log to can be changed
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         with <varname>TTYPath=</varname>, described
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@@ -365,6 +357,32 @@
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   </refsect1>
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+  <refsect1>
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+    <title>Forwarding to traditional syslog daemons</title>
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+
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+    <para>
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+      Journal events can be transfered to a different logging daemon
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+      in two different ways. In the first method, messages are
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+      immediately forwarded to a socket
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+      (<filename>/run/systemd/journal/syslog</filename>), where the
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+      traditional syslog daemon can read them. This method is
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+      controlled by <varname>ForwardToSyslog=</varname> option.  In a
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+      second method, a syslog daemon behaves like a normal journal
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+      client, and reads messages from the journal files, similarly to
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+      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
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+      In this method, messages do not have to be read immediately,
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+      which allows a logging daemon which is only started late in boot
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+      to access all messages since the start of the system. In
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+      addition, full structured meta-data is available to it. This
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+      method of course is available only if the messages are stored in
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+      a journal file at all. So it will work if
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+      <varname>Storage=none</varname> is set. It should be noted that
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+      usualy the <emphasis>second</emphasis> method is used by syslog
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+      daemons, so the <varname>Storage=</varname> option, and not the
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+      <varname>ForwardToSyslog=</varname> option, is relevant for them.
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+    </para>
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+  </refsect1>
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+
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   <refsect1>
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       <title>See Also</title>
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       <para>