F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Mon Jul 15 20:15:26 UTC 2013

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:10:11PM -0600, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Lennart Poettering
> <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> > (Just to mention this: we are neither the pioneer on the
> > no-default-syslog feature nor on no-default-sendmail... A lot of other
> > distros stopped installing an MTA by default a long time ago --
> > including Ubuntu since 2007 or so -- and some others have switched to
> > only-journal mode already too -- for example ArchLinux
> >
> > So, we are just following on these ones, on the sendmail thing even with
> > a 6 year lag...)
> 
> I can see advantages to not having an MTA by default, but I don't see
> the advantage in not having /var/log/messages.
One process less in the system → faster bootup.
Logs not duplicated → less disk usage.

Zbyszek

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