See also bug #740262 The systemd service unit file is not included in source any more, it has to be added to the ebuild. It can be the same as the one in 8.2006.0, the last working verion: # cat /lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service [Unit] Description=System Logging Service ;Requires=syslog.socket Wants=network.target network-online.target After=network.target network-online.target Documentation=man:rsyslogd(8) Documentation=http://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
This one is now critical. The last systemd-working rsyslog release was removed from portage.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 740262 ***