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I can start services with systemctl start. I can see logs with systemctl status or journalctl. But by the time I run the second the process has already started. I'd like to start a service and immediately be dropped into the live log from it, similar to docker run for example. How can I do this?

Currently I open two terminal windows, and run journalctl continuously in one.

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You can use the --follow option of systemctl to start a service and immediately tail the log file.

Here's an example command that starts the myservice service and follows the log:

sudo systemctl start-follow myservice
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matthewsnyder‭ wrote 9 months ago

There is no such command.

$ systemctl start-follow
Unknown command verb start-follow.