Setting up journalctl on Ubuntu Linux

Question

I am trying to use journalctl on my remote Ubuntu Linux box. I understand that I need to setup a config file journald.conf under /etc/systemd/ folder with permissions. But What I am struggling to understand how to enable the journalctl daemon in Linux in the first place. Is there any package that I need to install first?

Solution

I think i got it working. I simply typed sudo apt-get install systemd to install systemd it informed :

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libsystemd-journal0 systemd
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.

After this I get a journald.conf automatically created in /etc/systemd/ folder. I guess this will work now - Thanks

Comments

[Hunter.S.Thompson]

What version of Ubuntu are you using?

[ha9u63ar]

@HunterSThompson 16.04.2 LTS

[Hunter.S.Thompson]

Please add the output of dpkg -L systemd | grep journalctl and which journalctl