From afa54a38b738e6ddf4fb25757410cf7b24067b39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 11:25:00 +0200
Subject: services: syslog: Use a PID file.

* gnu/services/base.scm (syslog-service-type)[start]: Remove --no-detach
and use #:pid-file.
---
 gnu/services/base.scm | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index 2c2962cd8c..42094b5fb9 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -907,8 +907,8 @@ Service Switch}, for an example."
       (requirement '(user-processes))
       (start #~(make-forkexec-constructor
                 (list #$(syslog-configuration-syslogd config)
-                      "--no-detach"
-                      "--rcfile" #$(syslog-configuration-config-file config))))
+                      "--rcfile" #$(syslog-configuration-config-file config))
+                #:pid-file "/var/run/syslog.pid"))
       (stop #~(make-kill-destructor))))))
 
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