[systemd-devel] StandardOutput to file

[Martín Marqués]

El día 15 de marzo de 2012 10:17, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> escribió:
> On Thu, 15.03.12 09:45, Martín Marqués (martin.marques at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> Maybe my problem is that I'm new to systemd, but I can't make systemd
>> do what I did with system V, particularly with PostgreSQL server.
>>
>> I the old system, I had the script make a redirection of the pg_ctl
>> (postgresql script for starting, stopping, etc the server) output to a
>> file, which would be the log file (default behaviour in Debian).
>
> Well, but what would rotate that file? If you connect a service directly
> with a file the rotation problem is kinda unfixable.

OK, now I get the problem with logging to a file.

>> The thing is that systemd doesn't let you send StandardOutput to a
>> file. Best solution (which is how I'm doing it right now) is to send
>> it to syslog and configure syslog accordingly. This is not the best
>> solution, but it's the closest I found to what I wanted.
>>
>> The question would be: Is there some kind of work around, that doesn't
>> involve using syslog, to log to a file? Are there plans on letting
>> StandardOutput have a "file" option?
>
> On recent systemd versions something like "systemd-journalctl -o cat
> _SYSTEMD_UNIT=postgresql.service" should create a very simple output
> that only includes the actual messages and nothing else. You can even
> pass "-f" and make this live.

How recent the version of systemd? I'm on version 37.

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