[arch-general] systemd's journal and syslog-ng

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Le 15/02/12, Tobias Frilling <tobias at frilling-online.de> a écrit :


> If somebody still is interested in this, here is my follow-up:
> 
> After some digging (it is amazing how little information exist for
> this, not even a man page for anything journal related) I came to the
> conclusion that journal/socket is not meant for a logging daemon to
> read from. Instead journal/syslog should be used (see [1]). So your
> service file should look something like this:
> 
> [Unit]
> Description=System Logger Daemon
> 
> [Service]
> Sockets=syslog.socket
> ExecStartPre=-/bin/systemctl stop systemd-kmsg-syslogd.service
> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F
> ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
> Sockets=syslog.socket
> StandardOutput=null
> 
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
> Alias=syslog.service
> 
> And syslog should read from /run/systemd/journal/syslog
> 
> 
> [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/474968/

What's the difference between this syslog-ng.service file and the one
from syslog-ng ?
Beside the Alias line, you only duplicate the Sockets line which already
exists.

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