Bug 89581

Summary:	systemd-journald does not honor /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/*.conf files
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Chris Atkinson <cwa>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Chris Atkinson 2015-03-15 17:07:49 UTC

Since 218, drop in files in /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/ are supposed to be parsed and take precedence. This does not appear to be working.

This was reported by user fukawi2 in this Arch Forums post:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=194833

I have been able to recreate fukawi2's problem. (Note that while fukawi2's drop in file lacked a [Journal] header, mine had one and it made no difference.)

This is easy enough to work around, since and edited /etc/systemd/journald.conf works.

Regards,

Comment 1 Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2015-03-15 17:28:46 UTC

It works for me :)

Please make sure that the file has a .conf extension, there's the section header, and no typos, and journald has been reloaded.

If there's still a problem try:
$ systemctl edit systemd-journald
[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/bin/strace -D -o /tmp/log -e file /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald

This should create /etc/systemd/system/systemd-journald.service.d/override.conf.
Then restart the unit, and look at /tmp/log. There should be a statement like

open("/etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/local.conf", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 8

Comment 2 Chris Atkinson 2015-03-16 01:16:35 UTC

Eeep, EBKAC. Please close and accept my apologies.

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