On Thu, 15.03.12 09:45, Martín Marqués ([email protected]) 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. > 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. But I don't think supporting direct file ouputs makes much sense due to the rotation problem. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
