How to get useful system logs on CentOS 8
Beware the short lifespan
of CentOS 8. I haven't migrated to one of the replacements yet, so go
investigate for me and tell me what you think of these: Rocky
Linux AlmaLinux In the
mean time, my lone CentOS 8 system needs real logging. Journald doesn't seem
to store logs, because it is poorly written. Or given poor defaults, and
what's the difference? So in file /etc/systemd/journald.conf go set
variable:
[Journal]
Storage=persistent
But to get real logging, you need to go configure rsyslog.
sudo dnf install rsyslog
And that has sane defaults that actually log messages to disk.
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