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>> Engineer does not know what version of OS that server runs,
>> what is installed there and how it is configured.
>> So it needs to be investigated. Quite a typical situation.
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> Perhaps for you but for us here on top of the world we dont grant root access to people that cant event tell which OS and which release that OS is running on so that's quite un-typical situation for me.
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Also as a long term admin over many environments and many years ... Not just of Linux ... The "I don't know OS" argument I agree is a straw man.

As Lennart already pointed out this isn't a standard Linux location anyway so an off site engineer would already have the identification issue... And it's not like a yum update in f20 would make this change happen for existing systems...

Personally I'd love to see other applications make use of journald facilities such as httpd and tomcat... Would simplify some of the occasionally odd logrotate behaviour for sure...

But I guess that would be even more controversial ;-)

As to those worrying scripts will break and so on in production environments... Well that's why you test and have to update scripts on occasion and if you don't want to do that don't use a bleeding edge distro but rather something like rhel, CentOS, scili etc instead...

I personally love journald (and systemd) on my laptop and am looking forward to it arriving in EL soonish...