Ramlog is active but says exited on Dietpi-services

General Discussion
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Is it normal to have dietpi-ramlog service in active (exited) mode?

I issued the command dietpi-services status, and the system shows other services on active (running) mode but the ramlog service is on active (exited) mode. Is ramlog still working when in this mode?

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yes that’s fine with that status. Same on my system :sunglasses:

root@DietPi4:~# systemctl status dietpi-ramlog.service
● dietpi-ramlog.service - DietPi-RAMlog
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/dietpi-ramlog.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Sat 2020-03-28 15:44:44 CET; 2 weeks 2 days ago
 Main PID: 255 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 0B
   CGroup: /system.slice/dietpi-ramlog.service

Mär 28 15:44:44 DietPi4 systemd[1]: Starting DietPi-RAMlog...
Mär 28 15:44:44 DietPi4 systemd[1]: Started DietPi-RAMlog.
root@DietPi4:~#

To verify you could have a look to the log file

cat /var/tmp/dietpi/logs/dietpi-ramlog.log

And if you do a reboot, you will see that logs are stored on disk and restored after system is back online.

Tue 14 Apr 14:26:25 CEST 2020 | DietPi-RAMlog: Storing logs to disk...
Tue 14 Apr 14:26:25 CEST 2020 | DietPi-RAMlog: Stored logs to disk.
Tue 14 Apr 14:26:27 CEST 2020 | DietPi-RAMlog: Restoring logs from disk...
Tue 14 Apr 14:26:27 CEST 2020 | DietPi-RAMlog: Restored logs from disk.

Means the service is in a waiting/sleeping status until you do a reboot or poweroff.