Re: Redirect logs from script to systemd's StandardOutput file

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Do, 12.03.20 14:40, Ani A (aniruddha.a@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am on Ubuntu 18.04.2, and I have systemd version 237. I have some common tasks
> which need to happen prestart and poststop which I have moved to a
> script. All unit
> files look like:
>
>     StandardOutput=file:/var/log/my-<unitname>.log
>     ExecStartPre=/path/to/helper.sh -t prestart -u <unitname>
>     ExecStopPost=/path/to/helper.sh -t poststop -u <unitname>
>     ExecStart=/path/to/my/exe
>
> where <unitname> is the name of the systemd unit file.
>
> I use systemd's directive to log stdout to file, and in the prestart
> and poststop actions also
> I try to write some logs to the same file with shell echo, like:
>
>     echo "..." >> /var/log/my-<unitname>.log
>
> The logs that is written by the script does not appear in the log file!
> Is there anything wrong here (missing something) ?

Please provide the full unit file.

Lennart

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