How avoid unwanted systemd-journald?

[Olav Vitters]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:46:40PM -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 11/17/2013 12:32 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
> >I'm convinced it is as similar things on eg. ms windows (binary logs,
> >registry,...) - when is all working fine, then it look fine too.
> 
> Yes.  When there's a major crash, you may not have access to the
> fancy programs for reading binary logs, especially if they're GUI
> only, and you're stuck in CLI mode.  And once you have a binary
> database of all of your system info, the temptation to let
> non-system applications use it gets to be irresistible, and we all
> know what that leads to.  There are some things Windows does that
> are worth copying; the Registry isn't one of them.

A GUI for the journal is already being developed.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Logs

Anyway, seems good to have easy access to show the various log and error
output of programs in an easy way. More discoverable for users.

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Regards,
Olav