[Mageia-dev] systemd vs dm

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Dick Gevers at 17/09/11 10:36 did gyre and gimble:
> 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.

Well that's slightly disturbing. It seems that rsyslog was started but
not by systemd.

Can do do some kind of pstree type analysis (perhaps also using cgroups
stuff) to work out what process actually started rsyslog?


Col



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