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While adding a new service to the /etc/systemd/system/ folder, I have accidentally edited the syslog.service file and lost its original content.

Can someone paste the original file content here for me?

Or does anybody know how to restore it? I found this answer, but I don't know which package I should reinstall, and can't find it by file on https://packages.ubuntu.com.

Many thanks for help!

jerzymatlakiewicz
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    Side note: if you have the installation ISO, you can mount the system partition from that somewhere, and that should include said file – cocomac May 28 '22 at 06:11

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My system is a 20.04.4 server. I do not know if desktop is the same:

$ cat /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service
[Unit]
Description=System Logging Service
Requires=syslog.socket
Documentation=man:rsyslogd(8)
Documentation=https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/

[Service]
Type=notify
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE
StandardOutput=null
Restart=on-failure


Increase the default a bit in order to allow many simultaneous


files to be monitored, we might need a lot of fds.


LimitNOFILE=16384


[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=syslog.service
Doug Smythies
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