F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 17.07.13 10:06, Frank Ch. Eigler (fche at redhat.com) wrote:

> > 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.

Doesn't do rotation or anything like that. Also, that already exists in
rsyslog, no need to duplicate things here.

> > The journal is not an implementation of syslog, we already have that in
> > rsyslog. Also, the feature is about ending the duplicate storage of the
> > log messages [...]
> 
> Considering log rotation, and an effect of the above (> vs >>) being
> that only the current boot interval would be logged in the text file,
> there would not be much savings to worry about.  Perhaps this could
> be an acceptable compromise.

The feature is about getting rid of the duplicate log copies, it's
hardly a compromise if you leave that bit in...

Lennart

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