On 21/10/12 17:28, gt wrote: > Hi, > > with the recent update of syslog-ng (3.3.6-2), systemd has been added as > a dependency. > > I though systemd providing its own logging and syslog-ng wasn't needed. > Then why is systemd needed for syslog-ng to run? As far i can see from > the diffs, nothing has changed apart from adding systemd as a > dependency. > Look in syslog-ng.conf: unix-dgram("/run/systemd/journal/syslog"); That means, in its default configuration it requires systemd.