[Nix-dev] Will there be a systemd replacement at any time inthefuture?

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 02/09/14 11:58, Paul Colomiets wrote:

>> On 02/09/14 11:50, Michael Raskin wrote:
>>
>>>> It's funny, for me it's the opposite - logging with systemd is sooo much better
>>>> than with Upstart. (IIRC, the logging of stderr of Upstart jobs was a
>>>> NixOS-specific hack, and other than that there was no logging support.)
>>>
>>> Somehow, it work reliably…
>>
>> It did not. There was no way with Upstart to get the log output of a service.
> 
> Doesn't it always write to /var/log/upstart/<service_name>.log ?

No, it might log to syslog. In which case you have no way to easily query the
messages belonging to a specific service.

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/