F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Chris Adams linux at cmadams.net
Tue Jul 16 14:51:08 UTC 2013


Once upon a time, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> said:
> One suggestion I've heard is to write this line: 
> 
> Jan  1 00:00:00 localhost root: Run `journalctl` to see log data in /var/log/messages-compatible format

That would be a bad idea, as then you'd have an RPM-installed
/var/log/messages that can't be used for "real" logs with rsyslog.
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Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>


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