Essentially, bring back the old behaviour as of commit eba36a38 which was later changed by commit ae06048bf5d. Even though all the stderr messages will eventually end up in the journal, we're not making use of the fields journald provides. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1592644 Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/util/virlog.c | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virlog.c b/src/util/virlog.c index cb6901d9bf..3ee58c5db6 100644 --- a/src/util/virlog.c +++ b/src/util/virlog.c @@ -223,11 +223,17 @@ virLogSetDefaultOutputToFile(const char *filename, bool privileged) int virLogSetDefaultOutput(const char *filename, bool godaemon, bool privileged) { - if (!godaemon) + bool have_journald = access("/run/systemd/journal/socket", W_OK) >= 0; + + if (godaemon) { + if (have_journald) + return virLogSetDefaultOutputToJournald(); + } else { + if (!isatty(STDIN_FILENO) && have_journald) + return virLogSetDefaultOutputToJournald(); + return virLogSetDefaultOutputToStderr(); - - if (access("/run/systemd/journal/socket", W_OK) >= 0) - return virLogSetDefaultOutputToJournald(); + } return virLogSetDefaultOutputToFile(filename, privileged); } -- 2.20.1