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  1. XenServer Org
  2. XSO-543

journald / systemd logging disabled, and daemon.log incorrectly setup in XenServer 7

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Major
    • None
    • 7.0, 7.1, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
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    Description

      journalctl is a critical component of any systemD based distro, it turns out it isn't enabled or running in 7.0, this is a problem as many very important logs utilise journalctl.

      For example we realised that after upgrading and setting up snmp the daemon wouldn't start - so I turned straight to journalctl to see what errors had occurred this current boot but it wasn't available.

      The solution is simple, simply enable the journalctl service with systemctl, then start it.

      ```
      service systemd-journald start
      Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start systemd-journald.service
      ```

      You'll also want to make sure that logrotate is indeed correctly rotating logs, but it should be an easy fix otherwise.

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              enzo enzo raso
              s_mcleod Sam McLeod
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