Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part VIII

Posted Apr 24, 2011 23:43 UTC (Sun) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103)
In reply to: Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part VIII by wahern
Parent article: Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part VIII

Services should log there error causes to syslog. They can do that either via the syslog() libc call or by simply writing to STDOUT/STDERR, and using StandardOuput=syslog in the service file.

In F16 we plan to set StandardOutput=syslog by default. We are currently holding this back in order to support generic syslogs with SysV init scripts where such a default would result in a logging loop.

Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part VIII

Posted Apr 29, 2011 4:08 UTC (Fri) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

and what do yo do before syslog is running?

or more to the point, where to the logs go if it's the syslog daemon that's having the problem?