F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 16.07.13 20:58, Ding Yi Chen (dchen at redhat.com) wrote:

> > > He/She will be very frustrated if he/she cannot find it.
> > 
> > This is not really an argument, or it is valid for any changes.
> > What about the switch from up2date to yum years ago? I know, I first
> > tried
> > to run up2date before being shout at that it's normal it does not work
> > anymore since yum is there. What about the future change from yum to
> > dnf?
> > Should we try to keep both in place just because google has more
> > reference
> > to yum?
> > 
> > So, the fact that tutorials and blogs are mentioning /var/log/messages
> > is
> > not a valid argument :)
> 
> You still have not addressed the third party programs and scripts 
> that monitor /var/log/messages

As mentioned before, if people run programs that require
/var/log/messages they should simply install rsyslog and be done with
it.

Lennart

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