F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/15/2013 10:44 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
>>
>> = Proposed System Wide Change: No Default Syslog =
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoDefaultSyslog
>>
>> Change owner(s): Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering net>, Matthew
>> Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject org>
>>
>> No longer install a traditional syslog service by default. (Specifically,
>> remove rsyslog from the @core or @standard groups in comps.)
>>
>> The systemd journal will be the default logging solution. Rsyslog,
>> Syslog-NG,
>> and even traditional sysklogd will continue to cover use cases outside of
>> the
>> default.
>
>
> My voice may be one of thousands, but I'm saying: I want to have traditional
> syslog service as default and have journal from systemd as option.

This doesn't stop you from having a traditional syslog service, it's
just not installed in the desktop spins by default. "yum install
rsyslog" will continue to provide you the status quo.

Peter