Am 25. Dezember 2014 19:04:36 MEZ, schrieb Daniel Dickinson <[email protected]>: >On 23/12/14 04:40 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 23.12.2014 um 02:49 schrieb Daniel Dickinson: >>> Package: systemd >>> Followup-For: Bug #773766 >>> >>> It turns there was a permissions problem on the log file directory >>> for deluged causing deluged failing to start, however there was a >>> lack of information about the failure in the canonical place to look >>> for for such information (syslog). >>> >>> It's great and all to have the systemctl status command, once >>> you finally find out about it, but such information should >>> also be in the logs. >> >> Does deluged log the error to syslog directly or to stdout/stderr? > >To a file in /var/log/deluged/deluged.log > >This file was empty (deluged was never starting and before the config >is >active it logs to stdout/err I believe, which is why the output is only >in journalctl) > >> >> In both cases the error should end up in the journal, and can be >> queueried via >> systemctl status deluged.service >> and journalctl (in the latter case, you can use the builtin filter >> mechanisms like -u deluged.service or the path to the deluged >binary). >> >> If a syslogger like syslog-ng or rsyslog is installed, the journal >> messages should also end up in the syslog (depending on the >> configuration, you should check files like >> /var/log/daemon.log,syslog,messages). >> >> Are you saying, that no log messages appeared in the journal and/or >syslog? >> > >Messages appeared in journal (journalctl) however there was no output >in >syslog. I have noticed that *none* of the boxes / vms I have upgraded >from wheezy to jessie output the journal to syslog. I suppose this may >be a systemd upgrade bug.
Which syslogger do you have installed, rsyslog, syslog-ng? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

