Should Ubuntu systemd journal logs be persistent by default?

[David Britton]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 03:50:20PM +0000, Robie Basak wrote:
> 
> So what exactly is only going to the systemd journal now (and thus not
> being persisted) that was being saved somewhere persistently before?

Hi Robie --

I think the closest corollary to "what has regressed" that you asked,
is /var/log/upstart from trusty -> xenial.  These files often contained
early error messages from service startup that did not yet get to the
point of logging to syslog.

Similar messages show up in the journal.

-- 
David Britton <david.britton at canonical.com>