Those hacked together system-specific bash scripts were shit. Having a standard way of creating, starting, ensuring restarts,and logging services is so much better.
You can still get all the plain text logs you like.
Set ForwardToSyslog=yes in journald.conf and install a syslog daemon. Also optionally Storage=volatile (I wouldn’t set Storage=none unless you want systemd to no longer show you any logs anywhere including in systemctl status because I assume it will do that)
Those hacked together system-specific bash scripts were shit. Having a standard way of creating, starting, ensuring restarts,and logging services is so much better.
You can still get all the plain text logs you like.
How do you get plain-text logs instead of the garbage binary format that
journalctlforces on you?Set ForwardToSyslog=yes in journald.conf and install a syslog daemon. Also optionally Storage=volatile (I wouldn’t set Storage=none unless you want systemd to no longer show you any logs anywhere including in systemctl status because I assume it will do that)
Thank you!
Definitely reads like a Microsoft answer, seems so much easier than just reading text
By configuring journald to forward messages to syslog as is the default.
“forces on you” 🙄
Edit: Systemd has been around for 14 years. Did you never think to google this?
It’s not the default fwiw. From journald.conf(5):