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....

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 8:15 PM Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com&gt; wrote: > > On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 7:06 PM Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com&gt; 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...

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 7:14 pm, Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com&gt; wrote: > It's been this way as long as I can remember. I have /var/log/journal and I'm almost positive that I didn't do anything to create it.