# Ramlog is active but says exited on Dietpi-services

**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/ramlog-is-active-but-says-exited-on-dietpi-services/4008
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [14 April 2020 12:13 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/ramlog-is-active-but-says-exited-on-dietpi-services/4008 "2020-04-14T12:13:09Z")
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### Author: ![jvrang](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8edcca/32.png) [@jvrang](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/jvrang)
#### Post date: [14 April 2020 12:13 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/ramlog-is-active-but-says-exited-on-dietpi-services/4008/1 "2020-04-14T12:13:09Z")

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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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### Author: ![Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/joulinar/32/57_2.png) [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [14 April 2020 12:32 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/ramlog-is-active-but-says-exited-on-dietpi-services/4008/2 "2020-04-14T12:32:20Z")

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

```nohighlight
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:~#

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To verify you could have a look to the log file

```nohighlight
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.

```nohighlight
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.