Why rsyslog is not able to collect any system logs since upgrade to RHEL8 ?

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Issue

  • The mail logs are not collected in /var/log/maillog but collected in journal logs.
    • The mail activity is showing up in output of systemctl status postfix. I would expect it to show up in /var/log/maillog as well.
  • The logs related to mails/postfix are collected by systemd-journald in journal logs but are missing or not collected in /var/log/maillog.
  • Why rsyslog is not able to collect any system logs ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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