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@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