Re: F27 System Wide Change: Rsyslog log format change proposal

[David Sommerseth]

On 29/05/17 23:18, Björn Persson wrote:
>  Björn 'besser82' Esser wrote:
> > Does this qualify to be a system-wide change?  To me this looks like
> > a self-contained change, since I don't see any other packages or
> > processes in need for adjustment, but rsyslog itself.
>  
>  I'll be surprised if there aren't any programs that parse the system
>  log and will need to understand the standard timestamp format. One can
>  hope that they all understand it already, but the review that's needed
>  to determine that is in my opinion reason enough to treat it as
>  system-wide. 
One such program which strikes my mind instantly is logwatch ... how
will that cope this change?    That said, this change does make a lot of
sense; as long as log parses won't choke and die.  And those tools
should be fixed in these cases, don't revert this needed log format change.


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kind regards,

David Sommerseth