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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2020-03-31 15:59:29 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2020-04-01 00:15:41 +0200
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man: mention that stdout logging works the same as stderr logging
Apparently people wondered about that: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2020-March/044091.html
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#define SD_INFO "&lt;6&gt;" /* informational */
#define SD_DEBUG "&lt;7&gt;" /* debug-level messages */</programlisting>
- <para>These prefixes are intended to be used in conjunction with
- stderr-based logging as implemented by systemd. If a systemd
- service definition file is configured with
- <varname>StandardError=journal</varname>,
- <varname>StandardError=syslog</varname> or
- <varname>StandardError=kmsg</varname>, these prefixes can be used
- to encode a log level in lines printed. This is similar to the
- kernel <function>printk()</function>-style logging. See
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>klogctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- for more information.</para>
+ <para>These prefixes are intended to be used in conjunction with stderr-based logging (or stdout-based
+ logging) as implemented by systemd. If a systemd service definition file is configured with
+ <varname>StandardError=journal</varname>, <varname>StandardError=syslog</varname> or
+ <varname>StandardError=kmsg</varname> (and similar with <varname>StandardOutput=</varname>), these
+ prefixes can be used to encode a log level in lines printed. This is similar to the kernel
+ <function>printk()</function>-style logging. See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>klogctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more
+ information.</para>
<para>The log levels are identical to
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>'s