Journal Log Entry Suppresion for Sysstat Service

[greypenwriter]

Hi Sysstat Team,

Would there be a way to suppress the systemd entries for sysstat? I've tried the below with no luck.

I've based the below information on freedesktop systemd.exec documentation

Suppress standard out/err
[Service] ... StandardOutput=null StandardError=null

Modifying Log Level to only Error or Alert etc.
[Service] SyslogLevel=err

All of the above
[Service]
...
SyslogLevel=err
StandardOutput=null
StandardError=null
`

Thank you :)

[ferdnyc]

@greypenwriter

What kind of journal messages are you getting? On my Fedora system, using the distro package which appears to include the standard unit files (same as this repo), none of the units output anything to the journal. The only messages are things like:

Jul 06 08:37:06 systemd[1]: Starting sysstat.service - Resets System Activity Logs...
Jul 06 08:37:06 systemd[1]: Finished sysstat.service - Resets System Activity Logs.
Jul 11 15:17:37 systemd[1]: sysstat.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jul 11 15:17:37 systemd[1]: Stopped sysstat.service - Resets System Activity Logs.
Sep 01 04:16:55 systemd[1]: Starting sysstat-collect.service - system activity accounting tool...
Sep 01 04:16:55 systemd[1]: sysstat-collect.service: Deactivated successfully.
Sep 01 04:16:55 systemd[1]: Finished sysstat-collect.service - system activity accounting tool.

Because those come from the systemd process, I'm guessing they'd have to be suppressed in the systemd configuration, not the unit file. Assuming it's even possible to suppress them.

Or are you getting some other messages generated by a sysstat unit, that I'm not experiencing?