[Podman] journald log driver not working

25 Jan 2022

      Hello Everyone,

I'm testing out using journald for logging from one of my containers. I
think I configured it correctly, but I don't see anything in the path I
passed to it.

Here's the create command I used:

CreateCommand": [
                "podman",
                "run",
                "-d",
                "--name",
                "postgrey",
                "--pod",
                "mailman",
                "--volume",
                "postgrey:/var/spool/postfix/postgrey:Z",
                "--log-driver",
                "journald",
                "--log-opt",
                "path=/var/log/containers/postgrey.log",
                "postgrey"
            ],

/var/log/containers is empty:

# ls -l /var/log/containers/
total 0

Docker's docs on retrieving the logs with journalctl don't show me
anything:

journalctl CONTAINER_NAME=postgrey
-- Logs begin at Wed 2022-01-19 17:04:20 EST, end at Tue 2022-01-25
18:40:27 EST. --
-- No entries --

Incidentally, I used podman to crate the systemd unit files for the pod
and dumped them into /etc/systemd/system. I'm starting, stopping, etc
the pod using systemctl.

Using journald for logging means the container's logs get written to
the host's journal, right? If that's true, what am I doing wrong?

-- 
Ranbir