How to enable persistent logging for the systemd journal
Issue
- The
systemd
journal is configured by default to store logs only in a small ring-buffer in/run/log/journal
, which is not persistent - Journal database logs do not survive a system reboot
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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