F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[Florian Weimer]

On 07/15/2013 11:28 PM, Eric Smith wrote:

> Microsoft uses binary logs also, and they are really awful.  Maybe
> your binary journal is far better than MS' logs,

IIRC, the main issue with the Windows system event files is that in 
order to interpret the binary data, you need DLLs provided by the 
application which wrote the logs.  The journal provides a simple 
key/value map for each log entry, so it's easy for application 
developers to provide data in a more structured manner, while still 
maintaining the self-describing nature of log file entries (or perhaps 
increasing it because you now can add column labels because you don't 
feel compelled to avoid long log lines).

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team