On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 8:15 PM Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 7:06 PM Richard Shaw
<hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Did I miss a change notification at some point?
>
> I'm used to seeing a significant date range of data from journalctl but
upon checking today, well I only see today...
>
> Digging further it said I don't have a persistent storage or something
setup.
>
> So journalctl.conf is setup for "auto" which means that if
/var/log/journal doesn't exist, treat it as volatile, but if
/var/log/journal does exist, then treat it as persistent.
>
> When did this change? I never removed /var/log/journal....
It's been this way as long as I can remember.
That just doesn't make sense, because I've used journalctl -b -<num> on
many occasions, if volatile there's never anything beyond -b 0...
Thanks,
RIchard