podman logs processing

[yosiasz]

Hello,

where are the log files for a container not started as root located? I can see tail with podman logs -t container_id but not sure where these are located at if they are saved at all

[Luap99]

If you run podman inspect on the container you see the log config which shows the file path when the k8s-file logger is used. However the general default is using journald when available in which case all logs are in the journal and there is no single file for them.

[yosiasz]

Ah got it thanks! So when using podman compose I need to configure things so that logs are actually persisted. I think I can even specify the path. Thanks!!