F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at gmail.com
Wed Jul 17 16:54:25 UTC 2013


On 07/17/2013 04:52 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:39 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
> <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Allowing editing of log files is a pure security risk...
> So is giving a sysadmin the root password, but we do it.
>
> I generally make a copy of a log file and edit the copy, but I'd
> oppose anything that took away the ability for log files to be edited.

Nobody is taking that functionality as has been pointed out several 
times already you simple pipe the output from the journal to a separated 
file heck you can even filter that immediately then and there with the 
journalctl command

JBG


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