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Linux Service Management Made Easy with systemd

You're reading from   Linux Service Management Made Easy with systemd Advanced techniques to effectively manage, control, and monitor Linux systems and services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811644
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Donald A. Tevault Donald A. Tevault
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Preface 1. Section 1: Using systemd
2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Need for systemd FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding systemd Directories and Files 4. Chapter 3: Understanding Service, Path, and Socket Units 5. Chapter 4: Controlling systemd Services 6. Chapter 5: Creating and Editing Services 7. Chapter 6: Understanding systemd Targets 8. Chapter 7: Understanding systemd Timers 9. Chapter 8: Understanding the systemd Boot Process 10. Chapter 9: Setting System Parameters 11. Chapter 10: Understanding Shutdown and Reboot Commands 12. Section 2: Understanding cgroups
13. Chapter 11: Understanding cgroups Version 1 14. Chapter 12: Controlling Resource Usage with cgroups Version 1 15. Chapter 13: Understanding cgroup Version 2 16. Section 3: Logging, Timekeeping, Networking, and Booting
17. Chapter 14: Using journald 18. Chapter 15: Using systemd-networkd and systemd-resolved 19. Chapter 16: Understanding Timekeeping with systemd 20. Chapter 17: Understanding systemd and Bootloaders 21. Chapter 18: Understanding systemd-logind 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up remote logging with journald

Sometimes, it's handy to set up a central log collection server and have all the other machines on the network send their log files to it.

As I've already said, journald remote logging is still in a proof-of-concept phase and isn't considered ready for production use. Also, most third-party log-aggregation utilities are still set up to use plaintext rsyslog files. So, if you have remote logging on your site or if you need to set up remote logging, you'll most likely use rsyslog.

However, I do realize that some of you might be interested in playing around with a remote journald logging setup. If that's the case, I'd like to direct your attention to the procedure that's linked in the Further reading section. However, be aware that you'll need to install security certificates on the journald log server and all of the clients. This procedure has you install certificates from Let's Encrypt, which...

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