Job Snijders4d ago

ok systemd experts, how the heck do I get the output of a oneshot container with LogDriver=passthrough into both journald _and_ a regular log file that's rotated daily? Similar use case as described here https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/38684#issuecomment-3221956220

I need simple log files for long term archiving

In the old world I'd just do "./program | tee -a /logs/$(date +%Y%m%d.log)"

Rotate StandardOutput= file when rotating logs · Issue #38684 · systemd/systemd

Component journalctl, systemd Description The most efficient way to write daemon logs into a specific file is using: [Service] StandardOutput=append:/var/log/xxx.log StandardError=append:/var/log/x...

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Show threadjaseg4d ago
@job you could put something in ExecStopPost that dumps the output from journald into a plain text file after the container is done executing
Show threadJob Snijders
@jaseg thank you, that might be workable. Next challenge: figuring out how to extract only the last run :-)
Mar 28 at 1:30pmWeb
Show threadjaseg4d ago
@job probably —invocation -1