Here&#39;s the service file:<div><br></div><div><div>[Unit]</div><div>Description=System Logger Daemon</div><div>Documentation=man:syslog-ng(8)</div><div><br></div><div>[Service]</div><div>Sockets=syslog.socket</div><div>ExecStart=/usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F</div>
<div>ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID</div><div>StandardOutput=null</div><div>Restart=on-failure</div><div><br></div><div>[Install]</div><div>WantedBy=multi-user.target</div><div>Alias=syslog.service</div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>Also note, the line &quot;<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);white-space:pre-wrap">About to execute /usr/sbin/syslog-ng -n&quot; only shows up in the journal in debug mode (i.e. </span><span style="background-color:rgb(245,246,247);font-size:15px;line-height:2em">LogLevel=debug is in system.conf).</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(245,246,247);font-size:15px;line-height:2em"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(245,246,247);font-size:15px;line-height:2em">I also grepped the source and found nothing to explain the &#39;n&#39; flag.  Nonetheless, the fact that it is displayed in the example file at <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/syslog">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/syslog</a> would make it a strange coincidence.</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(245,246,247);font-size:15px;line-height:2em"><br></span></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Gergely Nagy <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:algernon@balabit.hu" target="_blank">algernon@balabit.hu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">P Levine &lt;<a href="mailto:nsane457@gmail.com">nsane457@gmail.com</a>&gt; writes:<br>
<br>
&gt; I&#39;ve been getting many &quot;syslog-ng.service start request repeated too<br>
&gt; quickly...&quot;<br>
&gt; issues in systemd journal .<br>
&gt; The syslog-ng service would always fail.<br>
&gt; I noticed there seems to be a bug in which systemd executes syslog-ng with<br>
&gt; the &quot;-n&quot; flag.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I recently posted the bug here:<br>
&gt; <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61324" target="_blank">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61324</a><br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; After modifying lib/gprocess.c to accept &quot;-n&quot; in place of &quot;-F&quot;,<br>
&gt; recompiling, and reinstalling, the problem has disappeared and the syslog-ng<br>
&gt; process remains up.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Is this a systemd bug?<br>
<br>
</div>Can you show your syslog-ng.service file? I&#39;ve grepped through the<br>
systemd sources, and didn&#39;t find any sign of implicit -n (but I might<br>
have missed it too).<br>
<div class="im"><br>
&gt; I have been googling for 2 days to see if it relates to any other bugs and<br>
&gt; have found nothing. I just started using systemd 4 days ago and its my<br>
&gt; impression that syslog-ng has supported systemd for some time. So, could<br>
&gt; there be something on my end causing the issue?<br>
<br>
</div>I&#39;m fairly sure this is an issue with one of the unit files. But if it<br>
turns out that systemd does add an implicit -n under some circumstances,<br>
then syslog-ng should support that, for compatibility&#39;s sake.<br>
<br>
What OS are you running, by the way?<br>
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