2:29 p.m.
The previous thread about logging was timely as I've been experimenting
with a setup to make sure I'm capturing all the logs from a few important
containers I've got running. But I'm still having some inconsistencies in
what shows up in the logs.
Some of my containers I want to run as root (rootful podman) and some as a
user (rootless podman). I'd like to get all of their logs to journald if
possible.
This systemd service file runs as a user and works correctly, but doesn't
log anything to journald. I can't make it work with "type=forking" (the
container starts, but is immediately stopped then killed for some reason):
[Unit]
Description=Hello
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target user-runtime-dir(a)1000.service
[Service]
Type=simple
User=core
Group=core
TimeoutStartSec=70
ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run --name hello --replace alpine /bin/sh -c
"while true; do date; logger $(date); echo hello; logger hello; sleep 60;
done"
ExecStop=/usr/bin/podman stop --ignore hello
ExecStopPost=/usr/bin/podman rm -f --ignore hello
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
This systemd service file works correctly and logs to journald, but only as
root:
[Unit]
Description=Hello
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=forking
TimeoutStartSec=70
ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run --name hello -d --replace alpine /bin/sh -c
"while true; do date; logger $(date); echo hello; logger hello; sleep 60;
done"
ExecStop=/usr/bin/podman stop --ignore hello
ExecStopPost=/usr/bin/podman rm -f --ignore hello
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
How do I make the logging work to journald from rootless podman?
Ryan