F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Billy Crook billycrook at gmail.com
Wed Jul 17 21:33:50 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net> wrote:

> Once upon a time, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> said:
> > What about a special filesystem mounted at /var/log or filesystem
> trickery
> > therein that presents contents similar to what everyone expects, backed
> out
> > of journalctl and its storage then?
>
> While you could probably do something like this with FUSE, it would be a
> hack, and it would also interfere with other logs under /var/log that
> are not syslog-related.


Oh I do agree.  This is a difficult problem to solve, which is why I so
strongly oppose creating it.  Especially when duplicate log storage is such
a trivial price to pay for backwards compatibility.
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