F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[M A Young]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> "cat /var/log/messages" becomes "journalctl"
> "tail -f /var/log/messages" becomes "journalctl -f"
> "tail -n100 /var/log/messages" becomes "journalctl -n100"
> "grep foobar /var/log/messages" becomes "journalctl | grep foobar"
>
> This isn't complex. You can grep/sed/awk as much as you want. You just
> do it over the output of journalctl rather than teh file. That's not
> that big a difference.

One thing you have missed is how you edit the log file. There may be cases 
where you want to strip out log entries, eg. when a process has gone wild 
and swamped the useful messages with useless ones and you want to keep the 
useful ones and throw away the useless ones.

 	Michael Young