On: Systemd, 10 years later (2020)

[wruza]

10 years and I still can't figure out how to view custom service logs, darn, so I redirect them into a logfile.txt in my .service files. Well, okay.

I don't care how it works and didn't take part in condemning it back then either, and I think that probably it made something better (? not that I felt it), but from a pure sudo-user perspective it is a strange ini-based tech-ridden(?) launcher to me. I've managed small networks before it and haven't really experienced any trouble that it supposed to remove(?).

Tldr: I still don't know what it is and what is it for. Servers worked before and after it, maybe that is already a good experience.

[chungy → wruza]

> 10 years and I still can't figure out how to view custom service logs

  journalctl -u custom-daemon.service

(you can usually leave out the ".service", but it helps disambiguate when you have different unit types under the same name)

[wruza → chungy]

I bet that exactly this didn't work last time I tried. I even made sure the program didn't buffer it's stdout.