F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

DJ Delorie dj at redhat.com
Mon Jul 15 18:20:54 UTC 2013


> And the outputs of these files are the exact same text streams you are
> used to. However, enhanced with a lot of niceties that make them more
> user friendly. For example, you get colors based on the log level, or
> there's a line drawn between reboots. You get the time zone corrected,
> and you get unconditional PID data, you can filter very very easy, the
> data is unfakable and so on.

So, despite what you just said, the output is *not* the exact same
text, and thus not a direct replacement for it?

/me shudders to think of all the sed/awk/perl scripts you're planning
on breaking.

I still vote "no" on dropping a default /var/log/messages.


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