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Comment by xerxes901

Put a script in /etc/systemd/system-generators/ that does something like

  if grep "logging = syslog" /etc/stupid-service/stupid-service.conf >/dev/null; then
    printf "[Unit]\nAfter=rsyslogd.service\n" > "$1/stupid-service.d/10-syslog-dep.conf";
  fi;
> It's pretty basic and straightforward

Postgres config supports line continuations, so the OpenRC service file you quoted is buggy; it could potentially match a file just because some other option contained a multi-line value that had the string "log_destination = syslog" in it.

The whole philosophy of systemd is to move away from these kinds of "simple" and "mostly working" pile-of-shell-script systems to actually-unconditionally-correct configuration that doesn't come with bonus text processing surprises.

parent xerxes901 9 months ago

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