F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Tomasz Torcz tomek at pipebreaker.pl
Wed Jul 17 14:23:59 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:06:27AM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> writes:
> 
> > [...]
> >> How about this idea.  Before "No Defualt Syslog", systemd needs to
> >> completely replicate all functionality provided by syslog, including
> >> /var/log/messages, by default.  Syslog emulation would be an option, and if
> >> people don't want it, they can still turn that option off.  But by default,
> >> everyone can still grep /var/log/messages.
> >
> > Not. Gonna. Happen.
> 
> OK, how about this other idea.  Include a default-on systemd service
> that runs
> 
>    journalctl --full -f > /var/log/messages
> 
> in the background.

  Such service is called ”rsyslog” and the whole thread is about installing
it by default.

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