Le 16/02/12, Tobias Frilling <tobias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > 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 The Alias line now makes sense to me. It links syslog-ng.service to syslog.socket which create /run/systemd/journal/syslog. Thanks for the tip (logging through /run/systemd/journal/socket indeed looks like garbage). -- radio ianux - http://ianux.fr/
