Re: systemctl logs to journal/kmsg intended?

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Di, 20.06.23 07:53, Christopher Wong (Christopher.Wong@xxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it intended that systemctl should send log messages to the
> journal and kmsg with this patch? Because previously it was only
> writing to console.

Nope. log_setup() doesn't do this, unless $SYSTEMD_LOG_TARGET= is
configured to do so, or journald is told to.

> commit 158fdd5326a750fe01fcaa76ac4a56fe197cf1aa
> Author: Yu Watanabe watanabe.yu+github@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:watanabe.yu+github@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Jul 7 16:38:54 2022 +0900
>
>     systemctl: enable colorized logging by default
>
> diff --git a/src/systemctl/systemctl.c b/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
> index 003d2f0c25..fa32c67a08 100644
> --- a/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
> +++ b/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
> @@ -1113,8 +1113,7 @@ static int run(int argc, char *argv[]) {
>          int r;
>          setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> -        log_parse_environment();
> -        log_open();
> +        log_setup();
>
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You are posting this to a public mailing list, you know this? I
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Lennart

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