On Jul 15, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Lennart Poettering mzerqung@0pointer.de wrote:
"tail -f /var/log/messages" becomes "journalctl -f"
It's so useful I would like this a default during anaconda installations in one of the shells.
journalctl makes a lot of things easier, much easier. If you say it is complex or difficult to use I am pretty sure you never had a closer look at it.
I find it quite a bit easier to use and have disabled rsyslog as part of my new setup procedure since F18; but that's only after using journalctl and messages side by side for a while and finding, so far, that journalctl contains more information but is easier to filter than messages.
Lets try to keep things simple. This is why we use Fedora. This is why I use Fedora.
We are certainly making things simpler by introducing nice query tools like journalctl and by reducing the number of packages we install by default, and by removing redundancy.
I think the simple reference is in regards to the implied rewiring of biomatter that'll be needed to drop rsyslog.
Chris Murphy