Service Manager

Start, Stop, Status

The preferred way to manage the LogCraft service is with systemctl:

bash

systemctl status logcraft
systemctl start logcraft
systemctl stop logcraft
systemctl restart logcraft

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Logs are located under LOGCRAFT_HOME/var/log. See Troubleshooting for details.

During installation, LogCraft installs its systemd service file and enables it by default.

If this step was skipped, you can manually enable LogCraft to start at boot by following the procedure below.

First, copy the service file to the systemd directory:

bash

cp /opt/logcraft/etc/systemd/logcraft.service /etc/systemd/system/logcraft.service

Then, reload the systemd manager configuration

bash

systemctl daemon-reload

Finally, enable the service to start automatically at boot:

bash

systemctl enable logcraft

Although systemctl is recommended, there may be cases where running LogCraft manually is useful, for example for troubleshooting.

bash

/opt/logcraft/bin/logcraft start

If the bin directory has been added to the system PATH, just run:

bash

logcraft start