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avidseeker

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Registered: 2022-09-06

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xinitrc logging

User dbus services in ~/.local/share/dbus-1/services and user units in ~/.config/systemd/user/ have their logs neatly recorded by Systemd.

However, for manually started programs in ~/.xinitrc, the user has the choice to redirect output to any file.

1. Is there a convention for the location of saving logs? I'd guess it should be $XDG_STATE_HOME/program_name/log.log or $XDG_STATE_HOME/program_name.log?
2. Is it possible to pipe the output somehow to systemd?
3. If not, then is there a way to save these logs to RAM instead of disk?

Tarqi

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From: Ixtlan

Registered: 2012-11-27

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Re: xinitrc logging

You can use logger for piping into the system log.

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