<div dir="ltr"><div>I have unit file which looks like below. I am seeing some of the echo are showing up in syslog but not in journalctl. Can someone let me know what is going on? </div><div>systemd version 229 running on Ubuntu 16.</div><div> </div>[Unit] Description=Kafka Service [Service] Type=simple Environment=KAFKA_HOME=/home/ubuntu/deploy/kafka Environment=LIB_DIR=/var/lib/kafka Environment=LOG_DIR=/var/log/kafka Environment=TEMP_DIR=/home/ubuntu/tmp Environment=TOOLS_JAR=/home/ubuntu/build-target/common-utils/tools-0.001-SNAPSHOT.jar Environment=MIN_DATA_PARTITION_FREE_SPACE_PCT=10 Environment=MIN_DATA_PARTITION_FREE_SPACE_GB=10 Environment=DATA_PARTITION_NAME=/var ExecStartPre=-/bin/mkdir -p /var/log/kafka ExecStartPre=-/bin/chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /var/log/kafka ExecStartPre=-/bin/mkdir -p /var/lib/kafka/kafka-logs ExecStartPre=-/bin/chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /var/lib/kafka/kafka-logs ExecStartPre=-/bin/rm -f /var/log/kafka/kafka-logs/.lock ExecStartPre=-/bin/mkdir -p /home/ubuntu/tmp ExecStartPre=-/bin/chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /home/ubuntu/tmp ExecStartPre=-/bin/chmod -R 775 /home/ubuntu/tmp ExecStartPre=-/bin/su ubuntu -c "/home/ubuntu/build-target/kafka/kafka-systemd-prestart.sh" ExecStart=/bin/su ubuntu -c "/home/ubuntu/build-target/kafka/kafka-systemd-health.sh" ExecStopPost=-/bin/bash /home/ubuntu/build-target/kafka/kafka-systemd-poststop.sh RestartSec=2s Restart=always LimitNOFILE=65535 KillSignal=SIGTERM SendSIGKILL=no SuccessExitStatus=1 143 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target<div> </div><div>kafka-systemd-prestart.sh looks like below </div><div><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:9pt">echo "[`date +"%h %d %Y %H:%M:%S-%3N"`] Starting kafka..." timeout --signal=sigkill 600s java -cp "$TOOLS_JAR" com.vnera.tools.kafka.KafkaIndexValidator "$LIB_DIR/kafka-logs" "$KAFKA_HOME/config/server.properties" true broker_id=`sudo grep -F "<a href="http://broker.id">broker.id</a>" $KAFKA_HOME/config/server.properties | awk -F '=' '{print $2}'` zookeeper_list=`sudo grep -F "zookeeper.connect=" $KAFKA_HOME/config/server.properties | awk -F '=' '{print $2}'` echo "attempting removal of broker id $broker_id" </pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo;font-size:9pt">used_pct=`df ${DATA_PARTITION_NAME} --output=pcent | grep -v Use | grep -o '[^ ]*[^ %]'` free_pct=$(expr 100 - $used_pct) free_gb=`df -h ${DATA_PARTITION_NAME} --output=avail --block-size G | grep -v Avail | grep -o '[^ ]*[^ G]'` echo "[`date +"%h %d %Y %H:%M:%S-%3N"`] partition ${DATA_PARTITION_NAME} free% $free_pct required% ${MIN_DATA_PARTITION_FREE_SPACE_PCT} freegb ${free_gb} required ${MIN_DATA_PARTITION_FREE_SPACE_GB}" </pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo;font-size:9pt"># Some other code</pre></div><div>kafka-systemd-poststop.sh looks like below </div><div><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo;font-size:9pt">-------------------</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo;font-size:9pt">echo "[`date +"%h %d %Y %H:%M:%S-%3N"`] Exiting kafka..." cmd="ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep kafkaServer"</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo;font-size:9pt"># Some other code</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo;font-size:9pt">echo "completed exiting kafka" </pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:9pt">Doing sudo journalctl -u kafka.service looks like below</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:9pt">Jul 25 07:41:39 platform2 systemd[1]: Started Kafka Service. Jul 25 07:41:39 platform2 su[39160]: Successful su for ubuntu by root Jul 25 07:41:39 platform2 su[39160]: + ??? root:ubuntu Jul 25 07:41:39 platform2 su[39160]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user ubuntu by (uid=0) Jul 25 07:41:40 platform2 bash[39192]: [Jul 25 2019 07:41:40-572] Exiting kafka... </pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:9pt">I am not seeing some of the echo from kafka-systemd-prestart.sh in journatl but I am seeing those logs in syslog </pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:9pt">Jul 25 10:17:03 platform2 su[38464]: WatchedEvent state:SyncConnected type:None path:null Jul 25 10:17:03 platform2 su[38464]: Node does not exist: /brokers/ids/2 Jul 25 10:17:03 platform2 su[38464]: [Jul 25 2019 10:17:03-343] partition /var free% 9 required% 10 freegb 134 required 10 Jul 25 10:17:03 platform2 su[38464]: [Jul 25 2019 10:17:03-344] Sufficient disk space is not available, sleeping for 60 seconds before exiting... </pre></div></div>