I have a backup script that runs periodically via cron. Instead of mailing
me a large log, I wanted to have it append to a log file that can be
rotated and compressed by logrotate. So I removed my link from
/etc/cron.hourly and created service and timer units.
My first cut at writing a log file was to use the append option to
StandardOutput:
[Service]
ExecStart=/home/Mirror/rsync-Saruman.sh
StandardOutput=append:/var/log/rsync-Saruman.log
In /var/log/messages I see:
Failed to parse output specifier, ignoring:
append:/var/log/rsync-Saruman.log
<https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html>
Based on some hints at the following link, I think I'll change this to use
syslog and add an rsyslog config file to redirect to the desired file. But
I wanted to find out why the append feature doesn't work.
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37585758/how-to-redirect-output-of-systemd-service-to-a-file>
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