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  • And what is in those journal files then that is not in syslog? Commented Feb 17, 2023 at 21:24
  • I can't know which one of many thousand linux distros you have installed. I don't know which one of hundreds of services you have installed and running. There's zero information in your post. Journalctl works as intended in your case. Your question is answered. If you have a new question, please create it. There's no concept, you have logging applications other than systemd-journald. systemd-journald does NOT write to any files outside of /var/log/journal. Commented Feb 17, 2023 at 22:18
  • The question was, what contains /var/log/journal. No reason to downvote. Thanks anyways Commented Feb 17, 2023 at 23:04
  • "what contains /var/log/journal" - I'm not sure I understand you. Commented Feb 18, 2023 at 9:11