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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2010-10-20 17:48:01 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2010-10-20 17:48:01 +0200
commit52f319b29398d36ed8d1a70f68a170c0a85f401d (patch)
treeacef18e5a3151bc1d677f2a8bf96d08f0f380fd8 /units/syslog.socket
parent0206d45866ac06ebc26972ad6e4d8f1e46dd56b1 (diff)
syslog: enable kmsg bridge by default and enable syslogging for early boot services
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+# This file is part of systemd.
+#
+# systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# See systemd.special(7) for details
+
+[Unit]
+Description=Syslog Socket
+DefaultDependencies=no
+Before=sockets.target
+
+[Socket]
+ListenDatagram=/dev/log
+SocketMode=0666
+
+# The service we activate on incoming traffic is
+# systemd-kmsg-syslogd.service. That doesn't mean however, that this
+# is the main syslog daemon in the system. Another syslog
+# implementation (which might be started via on-boot or another
+# non-socket activation) can take over possession of the socket and
+# terminate systemd-kmsg-syslogd. It could also simply replace the
+# socket in the file system, and leave systemd-kmsg-syslogd untouched.
+
+Service=systemd-kmsg-syslogd.service