rsyslogd: option "usepid" should contain one of system|syslog|both and no 'xxx'

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When inspecting the journal, the following error message can be seen:

rsyslogd[809]: option "usepid" should contain one of system|syslog|both and no 'xxx'

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9
  • rsyslog-8.2102.0-15.el8
  • rsyslog-8.2102.0-117.el9

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