# systemd and journal support

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/systemd-and-journal-support/11832>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 26, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/systemd-and-journal-support/11832 "2012-08-26T18:05:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mark\_Theunissen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mark\_Theunissen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mark_Theunissen)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/systemd-and-journal-support/11832/1 "2012-08-26T18:05:57Z")

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Hi all,

Next week I’ll be attending a [systemd](http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/) code [sprint](https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cee28a21tk5lfv0u224kj6pa930/115547683951727699051), the specific goal of which is to improve [journal](https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1IC9yOXj7j6cdLLxWEBAGRL6wl97tFxgjLUEHIX3MSTs) support in the native libraries. This includes Python of course, and the others are talking of integrating into tools like Chef.

I see that the service module has gained compatibility with systemctl recently. Are there any outstanding tasks there that people would like done?

Otherwise, the module\_common.py code could be adapted to log to the journal if it exists on the target machine. That seems like the logical first step. Any thoughts or ideas appreciated.

Regards,  
Mark

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/systemd-and-journal-support/11832/2 "2012-08-27T12:19:57Z")

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This sounds good to me.

--Michael