F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jul 16 14:53:59 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:51:08AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> > 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.

Right, if this were done, it would just be written, not owned by any RPM,
just as /var/log/messages is currently not owned by any package.

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