systemd

Catching interface state changes with Network Manager

Sometimes it is required that you can react on state changes of your network interfaces. Maybe you want to get notified by mail or you want to execute a script that does something in case an event is trapped. As(…)

Dealing with automatic restart and SQL Docker containers

A couple of weeks ago, a customer asked me how to restart containers automatically after a reboot of the underlying host. In his context, it was not an insignificant question because some containers are concerned by SQL Server databases and(…)

SQL Server on Linux and logging

On Windows world, SQL Server logs information both into the SQL Server error log and the Application log. Both automatically timestamp all recorded events. Unlike the SQL Server error log, the Windows application log provides an overall picture of events(…)

No journal messages available before the last reboot of your CentOS/RHEL system?

As you probably noticed RedHat as well as CentOS switched to systemd with version 7 of their operating system release. This also means that instead of looking at /var/log/messages you are supposed to use(…)