F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Wed Jul 17 15:34:39 UTC 2013

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:24:14AM -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> 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
It's been fixed upstream a while ago in http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=258.

Zbyszek
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