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Description: We have long been teaching students that in order to create a persistant log of journald, we need to follow these steps:

mkdir /var/log/journal
chown root:systemd-journal /var/log/journal
chmod 2755 /var/log/journal
systemctl restart system-journald

I propose we change this to the following:

mkdir /var/log/journal
systemd-tmpfiles --create --prefix /var/log/journal
systemctl restart system-journald

This is for a number of reasons:
1: the only time a user will ever need to know the group "systemd-journal" is for this command alone. This is not something a user should need to memorize
2: having a user manually set the user:group, as well as permissions and special bit is not really value add work, there are many places to set permissions.
3: The proper, official way to do this since the changes to systemd version 208, is to use tmpfiles, since it properly does it in one shot, one less command.
4: This change would better explain how tmpfiles works, by teaching them how --create works, and showing them the /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf file. Tons of examples there for them to learn from