Bug#1060667: radicale: Radicale is not logging to a log file under /var/log/radicale as per systemd unit "LogsDirectory"
Alastair Sherringham
Version: 3.1.8-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I have installed Radicale Card/CalDAV server on Debian Bookworm (12.4).
apt install radicale
Install adds "radicale" user and group OK.
Config file in /etc/radicale/config
I did not change the config file (initially).
Enable and use systemd service (installed as /lib/systemd/system/radicale.service).
systemctl enable radicale.service
systemctl start radicale.service
systemctl status radicale.service :
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● radicale.service - A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/radicale.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2024-01-12 10:50:29 GMT; 5s ago
Docs: man:radicale(1)
Main PID: 61961 (radicale)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 9249)
Memory: 20.9M
CPU: 726ms
CGroup: /system.slice/radicale.service
└─61961 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/radicale
Jan 12 10:50:29 vesta systemd[1]: Started radicale.service - A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server.
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In /var/log/syslog (and journal) :
Jan 12 10:50:29 vesta systemd[1]: Started radicale.service - A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server.
Radicale systemd unit includes a "[Service]" section :
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/radicale
Restart=on-failure
LogsDirectory=radicale
User=radicale
and should use a log file : /var/log/radicale
ls -l /var/log :
drwxr-xr-x 2 radicale radicale 4096 Jan 12 10:50 radicale
However this directory is empty and never populated.
Set logging to "info" in config file and : systemctl restart radicale :
/var/log/syslog :
2024-01-12T10:53:49.958708+00:00 vesta systemd[1]: Stopping radicale.service - A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server...
2024-01-12T10:53:50.050017+00:00 vesta systemd[1]: radicale.service: Deactivated successfully.
2024-01-12T10:53:50.050667+00:00 vesta systemd[1]: Stopped radicale.service - A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server.
2024-01-12T10:53:50.066160+00:00 vesta systemd[1]: Started radicale.service - A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server.
2024-01-12T10:53:50.585767+00:00 vesta radicale[62111]: [2024-01-12 10:53:50 +0000] [62111] [INFO] Loaded default config
2024-01-12T10:53:50.586197+00:00 vesta radicale[62111]: [2024-01-12 10:53:50 +0000] [62111] [INFO] Loaded config file '/etc/radicale/config'
2024-01-12T10:53:50.586326+00:00 vesta radicale[62111]: [2024-01-12 10:53:50 +0000] [62111] [INFO] Skipped missing config file '/var/lib/radicale/.config/radicale/config'
2024-01-12T10:53:50.586435+00:00 vesta radicale[62111]: [2024-01-12 10:53:50 +0000] [62111] [INFO] Starting Radicale
/var/log/radicale is still empty. No log file written here.
I assume I should see logging go to a file under this directory. I also
assume that I might be doing something wrong.
Many Thanks for having a look.
Alastair
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-17-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages radicale depends on:
ii adduser 3.134
ii init-system-helpers 1.65.2
ii python3 3.11.2-1+b1
pn python3-radicale <none>
ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.06-4
Versions of packages radicale recommends:
ii ssl-cert 1.1.2
Versions of packages radicale suggests:
pn apache2 <none>
pn apache2-utils <none>
pn libapache2-mod-proxy-uwsgi <none>
pn python3-bcrypt <none>
pn python3-passlib <none>
pn uwsgi <none>
pn uwsgi-plugin-python3 <none>