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Bhushan
Asked: 2017-06-23 09:53:09 +0800 CST

systemctl: Write console message to particular file

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I have a service configured with systemctl. This is the config file:

[Unit]
Description=eureka-server
After=syslog.target

[Service]
User=bhushanp
#User=root
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -jar /home/bhushanp/apps/eureka_server.jar > /var/log/es.log 2>>&1
SuccessExitStatus=143

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

But its not writing logs to /var/log/es.log file.
Any help is appreciated.

systemd

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    ExecStart is not managed by a shell, so if you want that, prefix it with /bin/sh -c and quote your arguments. I would recommend you rather let stdout be connected to the journal and look at log output using journalctl -u foo.service than grabbing it out of a file on disk.

    If you want to follow the log in a similar fashion to tail -f, you can use journalctl -f -u foo.service.

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