[Mageia-dev] systemd vs dm

Sat Sep 17 11:36:34 CEST 2011

On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 10:02:03 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote about Re:
+[Mageia-dev] systemd vs dm:
+
+>So does:
+>
+>systemctl restart rsyslog.service
+>
+>work?
+
+Not really:
+
+# systemctl restart rsyslog.service
+# systemctl status rsyslog.service
+rsyslog.service - System Logging Service
+          Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service; enabled)
+          Active: failed since Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:30:29 +0000; 8s ago
+         Process: 23407 ExecStart=/sbin/rsyslogd -n -c5 (code=exited,
+status=1/FAILURE) Process: 23404 ExecStartPre=/bin/systemctl stop
+systemd-kmsg-syslogd.service (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup:
+name=systemd:/system/rsyslog.service
+#
+
+>And finally, can you run: /sbin/rsyslogd -n -c5 manually or does it exit
+>out with return code 1 also?
+
+# /sbin/rsyslogd -n -c5
+Pidfile (and pid) already exist.
+
+and:
+# ps -eLF |grep rsys
+root      1104     1  1104  0    4 60184  1512   0 Sep16 ?        00:00:00
+rsyslogd -c 4
+root      1104     1  1130  0    4 60184  1512   4 Sep16 ?        00:00:00
+rsyslogd -c 4
+root      1104     1  1131  0    4 60184  1512   0 Sep16 ?        00:00:00
+rsyslogd -c 4 
+root      1104     1 1132  0    4 60184  1512   2 Sep16 ?        00:00:00
+rsyslogd -c 4 
+...
+
+And lsof shows that all relevant logs are touched by the rsyslog daemon. So
+my guess is that only the systemd status message is bad, but the service is
+running correctly.
+
+Cheers,
+=Dick Gevers=
+
+