F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Wed Jul 17 15:24:14 UTC 2013

On 07/15/2013 07:25 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:13:24AM +1000, Dan Fruehauf wrote:
>> Another question while we're at it - what happens if and when you decide to
>> change your binary format for storing files for whatever reason? Is that
>> when we understand that we should have been left with just text based files?
>
> A stable, documented journal format is a prerequisite for this feature.
>
>    http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-files/
>
> That page outlines the plan for compatibility and for future extensions, and
> it seems reasonable to me.
>
>
FWIW, the 'file' utility does not have the magic to recognize systemd 
journal files---it just sees them as generic 'data'. I filed a bugzilla 
report and proposed fix:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985072