On 02/16/2012 07:13 PM, ianux wrote: > What's the difference between this syslog-ng.service file and the one > from syslog-ng ? > Beside the Alias line, you only duplicate the Sockets line which already > exists. Yeah, the duplication was an accident (might have happened out of frustration). My prior setup lacked the journal/syslog socket, so I thought that the service file was missing a Sockets= entry (reading the file might have helped ;-) ). The service file shipped with syslog-ng does the trick, as long as you point the config to journal/syslog. As for the Alias line, consider this comment from syslog.socket: # The default syslog implementation should make syslog.service a # symlink to itself, so that this socket activates the right actual # syslog service. # # Examples: # # /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service -> /lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service # /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service -> /lib/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service # # Best way to achieve that is by adding this to your unit file # (i.e. to rsyslog.service or syslog-ng.service): # # [Install] # Alias=syslog.service
