F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> said:
> Sure, those are the defaults. If you had written that you don't like
> the systemd defaults, instead of talking about "bugs", this whole
> conversation would have been much productive.

When I described the behavior, I was told I was wrong and that the lines
weren't chopped (which I then wondered why there was a "--full" option).
Neither the documentation or the emails mentioned that journalctl
overrides $LESS with the option to chop lines; I only found that out by
tracing the process.

> > Another thing that I don't see in the man page is why some lines are
> > bold/in color.
> error -> red, notice -> bold, etc.

Which Lennart said should be documented in the man page, which is now on
the to-do list.

> It's a feature you don't get traditionally because syslog drops the
> priority information from the on-disk format.

I'd expect that if somebody thought that was an important default, the
log format would have been updated years ago when rsyslog became the
default.
-- 
Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>