[systemd-devel] Globally overriding stdout/stderr for all units for debugging?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 23.11.10 09:30, Andrey Borzenkov (arvidjaar at gmail.com) wrote:

> Setting systemd.log_target affects only output made by systemd itself;
> units still continue to use whatever was defined in unit files. To
> debug unit activation problems it would be helpful to redirect output;
> but for auto-generated units (like mounts, swaps, etc) it is not even
> possible as there is no unit file to edit.
> 
> Would global option, something like systemd.unit_{stdout,stderr}=kmsg,
> make sense?

Definitely. In fact, we should probably set this to "syslog" by
default. I have now added this to the TODO list.

Lennart

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