systemd: connect standard output/error to null

systemd 35 and newer by default connect all services' stdout/stderr with syslog. In order to avoid logging loops syslog-ng needs to opt out of this behaviour, hence we override the default here and connect syslog-ng's output with /dev/null. For more information see: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/syslog Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering <[email protected]>
eric · Sep 2, 2011 · fcb8724 · fcb8724
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diff --git a/contrib/systemd/syslog-ng.service b/contrib/systemd/syslog-ng.service
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Sockets=syslog.socket
 ExecStartPre=/bin/systemctl stop systemd-kmsg-syslogd.service
 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F
 ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
+StandardOutput=null
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target