Service does not start

[howff]

I've installed this in raspbian but it does not start, the service always says exited with code 1.

When trying to start it manually and running via strace I can't see any obvious system calls returning an error that would cause it to exit. It seems to exit after doing various pcap things.

[glance-]

This is probably due to you not having configured a target for it to send it's logs to.

Add something like:

Address=192.0.2.1:514
Protocol=udp

to /etc/systemd/systemd-netlogd.conf

[howff]

It was configured exactly as in the docs, /etc/systemd/systemd-netlogd.conf is

[Network]
Address=192.168.2.38:514
#Protocol=udp

[glance-]

I can't test right now, but I think you must configure which protocol to send the logs as, as there's no default value. As far as I read the source, the default Manager->protocol value will be 0 from new0 in manager_new() , and that's not a valid value, as SYSLOG_TRANSMISSION_PROTOCOL_UDP = 1 and SYSLOG_TRANSMISSION_PROTOCOL_TCP = 2

So remove the comment out of the Protocol line and it will probably work for you.

[ssahani]

Now I have inited https://github.com/systemd/systemd-netlogd/pull/42/files#diff-cc6f5ea3643f84c059c72cf98a4dca5ded7f5025f46af4780f8a0788f98b1628R494

[ssahani]

Address=127.0.0.1:6000
Protocol=udp
LogFormat=rfc3339

[howff]

I think the README.md might be wrong, the filename seems to be /etc/systemd/systemd-netlogd.conf (not /etc/systemd/netlogd.conf) and the Protocol=udp seems to be required (not commented out).

[ssahani]

please update to lastest git

[ssahani]

I think this is resolved