F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Eric Smith brouhaha at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jul 17 04:26:22 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 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.

So? The same argument could be made for programs that expect the binary journal.

Eric


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