F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 17.07.13 17:41, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 17.07.2013 17:21, schrieb John.Florian at dart.biz:
> >> From: sclark at netwolves.com
> > 
> >> This seems like such a specious argument. Maybe it made sense when
> >> we were talking about disk drives
> >> that were megabytes in size, but now we have 500 gigabyte drives
> >> usually as a minimum.
> > 
> > You don't ever work with embedded systems, do you?
> 
> and there you can not distribute a config file with
> the option to disable this?
> 
> having the *option* do the double-log in journald
> to keep /var/log/messages alive would allow a
> *lot* of more users to remove rsyslog as with
> the "eat or die" proposal leading to have rsyslog
> manually installed on many systems

I am not sure what the benefit of this would be. I mean, journald comes
with a built-in option for double-logging and keeping /var/log/messages
around. It's easily accessible with one command, which is "yum install
rsyslog". Extremely convenient.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.