F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Jul 18 09:17:29 UTC 2013


On 07/18/2013 06:36 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 14:58 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> We ask this constantly on Fedora. Because Fedora is where innovation is
>> supposed to take place, not where things are stay frozen in carbonite
>> forever.
>>
>> (And let's never forget that Fedora is not the pioneer here. ArchLinux
>> went journal-only already. We are not actually the innovators here, we
>> just follow.)
>
> I believe openSUSE 12.3 does not install syslog anymore either. (I think
> they decided they did not want to log everything twice? :) Fedora's
> following this time.

Is this of any importance? May be you should think about the reasons we 
are using Fedora and are not using openSUSE.

That said Fedora should draw its own decisions and not try to be an 
imitation cult.



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