From 8e92d3a4a024f782be69ff413ef442dd60714725 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cameron Sparr <cameronsparr@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 10:42:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Log to /var/log/telegraf/telegraf.log on systemd

closes #1243
---
 CHANGELOG.md             | 1 +
 scripts/telegraf.service | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f251d6735..667679a5a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ to "stdout".
 - [#1198](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1198): http_response: override request Host header properly
 - [#1230](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1230): Fix Telegraf process hangup due to a single plugin hanging.
 - [#1214](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1214): Use TCP timeout argument in net_response plugin.
+- [#1243](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1243): Logfile not created on systemd.
 
 ## v0.13 [2016-05-11]
 
diff --git a/scripts/telegraf.service b/scripts/telegraf.service
index dcc2b9713..06345e779 100644
--- a/scripts/telegraf.service
+++ b/scripts/telegraf.service
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ After=network.target
 [Service]
 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/telegraf
 User=telegraf
-ExecStart=/usr/bin/telegraf -config /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf -config-directory /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d ${TELEGRAF_OPTS}
+Environment='STDOUT=/var/log/telegraf/telegraf.log'
+Environment='STDERR=/var/log/telegraf/telegraf.log'
+ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/telegraf -config /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf -config-directory /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d ${TELEGRAF_OPTS} >>${STDOUT} 2>>${STDERR}"
 ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
 Restart=on-failure
 KillMode=process