F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosowski at nist.gov
Wed Jul 17 15:37:49 UTC 2013


On 07/15/2013 11:20 PM, Dan Fruehauf wrote:

> By all means any windows person I know would much rather have logs as
> plain text. Not the other way around.

I am not a windows person but I liked the way event viewer allowed to 
select and re-sort entries, even with their very limited capabilities.

In contrast, I kept feeling annoyed by the difficulty of doing simple 
things with /var/log/* files: for instance, a collated, time-sorted 
excerpt of events from all files during the last weekend (hint: grep and 
sort don't quite suffice; also, /var/log/* doesn't work unless you like 
the utmp/wtmp junk in your output).



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