F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[Ding Yi Chen]

----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, 17.07.13 21:00, Ding Yi Chen (dchen at redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> > > The release notes addition we suggested in the feature page tells you
> > > what to do.
> > > 
> > > The feature page also says we'll add /var/log/README explaining the
> > > situation.
> > > 
> > > It would be useful actually if you raised these points only after reading
> > > the thread, because this has been discussed quite a few times already on
> > > this thread.
> > 
> > In theory, everyone should read the ChangeLog, RELEASE-NOTES, and manual on
> > every thing he/she uses.
> > 
> > In reality, well ...
> > What's the percentage of your friend and family actually finish read
> > all the document they supposed to read?
> 
> We actually stick the README in /var/log, i.e. where the admin looks for
> the log files. We do not hide it in /usr/share/doc or so where nobody
> looks.
> 

That would definitely help for people that actively go into /var/log
and look for /var/log/messages.

It does not help on the case of some monitor program that read /var/log/messages
then generate the reports.

User might be aware the monitor program stop working, but not aware the root cause
is /var/log/messages no longer exists.

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Ding-Yi Chen
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Email: dchen at redhat.com

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