version 3.26.1 — ubuntu 14.04 I can start syslog-ng from the command line without issues (apart form a warning to stderr) but when I try and start it from systemd it starts up (it prints the warning message to the logs) and then exits silently. This version was compiled locally i.e. it was not installed from a package. The .service file was adapted from a sample in the contrib directory. I also had the same behaviour from and other .service file that I put together myself. It is presumably some to do with the environment. I did try starting it with -i (interactive) in the hope that it would spit something out on the console but instead it hung and I had to ^C it Any thoughts on how to figure out what is going on? ===================================== here are two different attempts (first commented) rful011@secmgrprd02:~$ cat /etc/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service #[Unit] #Description=syslog next generation #After=network.target auditd.service #[Service] #EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/syslog-ng #ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -f /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng.conf #ExecReload=/usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng-ctl reload #Restart=on-failure #RestartPreventExitStatus=255 #Type=notify #[Install] #WantedBy=multi-user.target #Alias=syslog-ng.service [Unit] Description=System Logger Daemon Documentation=man:syslog-ng(8) Conflicts=emergency.service emergency.target Wants=network.target network-online.target After=network.target network-online.target [Service] Type=notify EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/syslog-ng EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/syslog-ng ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -f /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng.conf ExecReload=/usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng-ctl reload StandardOutput=journal StandardError=journal Restart=on-failure [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target