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Bug 1168955

Summary:	[RFE] Send logs to journald
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Martin Kosek <mkosek>
Component:	krb5	Assignee:	Robbie Harwood <rharwood>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Patrik Kis <pkis>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	7.1	CC:	dpal, drieden, pasik, pkis, rharwood
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Clones:	1307105 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2018-10-08 05:34:37 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	1307105
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Description Martin Kosek 2014-11-28 14:06:57 UTC

Description of problem:

Instead of writing the debug logs directly to the disk, it is possible to send them to journald, on platforms where journald is available.

The biggest benefit is that the debug logs are structured, so it's possible to decorate the debug messages with key/value pairs and later query based on these extra fields.

This feature is a required so that FreeIPA project can implement additional log processing or auditing capabilities. See upstream ticket for details: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4296.

Comment 1 Roland Mainz 2015-01-22 19:40:46 UTC

Small note (to have the info somewhere since it took some time to dig it out): The upcoming changes for upstream krb5 will only target newer systemd for now, there was an incompatible change which causes build system issues (short: Some systems (incl. RHEL7) will have a systemd that is too old and won't have the unified .pc).

Comment 2 Martin Kosek 2015-01-23 07:40:01 UTC

Thanks for info. What is the consequence? Does it mean krb5 in RHEL7 would not be able to use systemd/journal integration or that krb5 would could not be updated in RHEL7?

Comment 10 Martin Kosek 2018-10-08 05:34:37 UTC

There is now some work on properly gathering logs from IdM, but having logs in journald will not be a requirement. Given this RFE did not get traction until now, I do not think it is needed and I will close it. We would open RFE when the log gathering piece is clarified and it is known what technology will do it.