systemd service log settings

[gismo141]

systemd service log settings

[gismo141]

At the moment there isn't because systemd is logging into a binary-file instead of a simple text-file.

However I am already working on a solution to make that possible in the next version 😊

[frodeaux]

Thanks for the response, after an exhaustive search I came to the same conclusion. I'm new to systemd and I didn't find a good way to output the log to a text-file. I converted my startup process to inet.d and it works well. Does the package have to be installed via sudo?

[gismo141]

Sorry for the trouble about your start script!

Normally you shouldn't need sudo for the installation.

I'll try to implement a solution for systemd in the coming days because it's very good in general.

Thanks for your patience and research! ;)

[gismo141]

I've added now the possibility to use the journalctl-log with Homebridge!

What you need:

adapt your config.json for the server as follows:

{
    "platform": "Server",
    "port": 8765,
    "name": "Homebridge Server",
    "log" : "systemd"
}

And allow the user you're using to execute homebridge to read the journalctl-logs, whereas systemd-journal is the journalctl-group and homebridge is the user executing the homebridge-service:

sudo usermod -a -G systemd-journal homebridge

Finally restart the homebridge-service and keep on logging ;)

I'll close this issue as soon as I've added this info to the documentation!
Hope you like it!