F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 07/17/2013 08:23 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:46:01PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 05:42:21PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>>> yum whatprovides "/var/log/*" | grep Filename | wc -l
>>>> 597
>>>> About that much....
>>> That's not so helpful. Most of these are things which provide their own log
>>> files of some sort and completely bypass syslog. In fact, we can probably
>>> _subtract_ anything on that list.
>> Irrelevant since it's either a tool or an admin that is looking into
>> those logs and both come up empty handed hence it needs to be fixed
>> one way or the other. ( sub-packaged )
> I'm not following you here. To pick a random example from the top of the
> list, "3proxy" is going to keep logging to /var/log/3proxy no matter what we
> do with syslog. It won't "come up empty handed" -- from its point of view,
> nothing has changed.
>
> Are you suggesting we somehow need to patch all of these to use the journal
> instead of their own ad-hoc log file? Because that is Definitely Out of
> Scope for this proposal.
>

No that's not what I'm proposing.

JBG