[systemd-devel] Where are the places systemd logs?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 7:49 PM Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> Am 07.01.20 um 01:43 schrieb Jeffrey Walton:
> > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 7:41 PM Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> >> Am 07.01.20 um 01:34 schrieb Jeffrey Walton:
> >>> I am missing information about my services. I've got dead services without logs.
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> >>> Where are the places systemd logs?
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> >> journalctl unless you configure rsylog or something else to fetch the
> >> logs for classic textfiles
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> > No, journalctl is missing the entries.
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> you really need to be morte specific what you are talking about at all -
> i get the feeling you talk about logs which are completly unrelated to
> syslog at all
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> > Is there a way to configure systemd to log to /var/log/messages?
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> no, and anything that's not visibile in journalctl simply don't exist

Thanks.

Something is broken here. I can manually start a service, but systemd
can't/won't automatically start it at boot. But the kicker is, there
are no logs anywhere until I manually start it.

The service was previously [trying to] starting at boot, but it failed
to start because systemd seems to lie about when the network is
available. So I added additional After= and Wants=, and now no service
and no logs.

I really don't get this tool and why it hides so much information from people.

Jeff