F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:58:40PM -0400, Ding Yi Chen wrote:
> You still have not addressed the third party programs and scripts 
> that monitor /var/log/messages

A) If someone is installing a program that expects this file, they can also
install rsyslog.

B) Fedora, RHEL, and most Red Hat derived distributions use
/var/log/messages, but not all do -- for example, Rocks (common in HPC)
breaks out syslog messages into individual files per facility. Debian and
Ubuntu? Totally diferent. (/var/log/syslog)

So, these third-party scripts need to be flexible anyway. I don't think this
is a very strong point in the conversation.



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