[systemd-devel] Antw: Re: Antw: [EXT] Re: Q: logrotate and "systemctl kill -s HUP ..."

[Ulrich Windl]

>>> Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> schrieb am 01.10.2020 um 09:22
in
Nachricht <20201001072237.GB301913 at gardel-login>:
> On Mi, 30.09.20 12:52, Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni‑regensburg.de)
wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestions. Before I work them out, I have a simple
question
>> (systemd‑228 of SLES12):
>> Systemd loggs quite a lot; does it log a message when it sends a signal to
a
>> process (or fails to do so)? If so it would help to isolate the problem. I
>> could not see any message, so my guess is that the test for the PID file 
> does
>> not work as intended.
> 
> We do not log about killed processes like that no. It was supposed to
> be a work‑alike to the venerable unix kill comand which doesn't log
> about this either.
> 
> That said, it might make sense to change that, at least log at debug
> level. Please file an RFE issue on github asking for this to be added,
> and we'll add it when we find the time to.

#17254

> 
> "systemctl status" should tell you what systemd considers to be the
> main pid of a service however, verify that it points to the right
> process. The "systemctl kill" line you are using really just then
> sends a signal to that one process.
> 
> Lennart
> 
> ‑‑
> Lennart Poettering, Berlin