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I'm running an Ubuntu based distro

Linux version 4.1.18-ipipe (ubuntu1604@ubuntu1604) (gcc version 4.9.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.3-13ubuntu2)

When this system boots up, rsyslogd is not running. So any C programs that call syslog(...) do not report any information. The simple fix to this is to SSH into the system and issue an rsyslogd on the terminal.

Is there a standard way to have this utility start up automatically?

Izzo
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Is the distribution systemd-based (ubuntu should be, but I am unfamiliar with this one)?

If that is so,

 systemctl enable rsyslog

ought to do the trick.

LSerni
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  • I'm somewhat inclined to think it's not systemd based, as syslog calls would be going to the journal if so. That or @Izzo isn't aware of the journal. – phemmer Jan 21 '22 at 00:49
  • @phemmer I don't really understand the journal and how it interacts with syslog.. so i might be missing something on my end. – Izzo Jan 21 '22 at 15:33
  • Looks like no systemctl on my machine: -bash: systemctl: command not found – Izzo Jan 21 '22 at 15:35
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That's really weird, as Linaro 4.9 is using systemd.

First check if the systemd package is

sudo dpkg -l | grep systemd

If not then install it by hands

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install systemd

But if it does it might be damaged, so you may try to reinstall it

sudo apt-get install --reinstall systemd

After that you should be able to enable (autostart) rsyslog as LSerni stated:

systemctl enable rsyslog
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