On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:06:27AM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
Lennart Poettering mzerqung@0pointer.de writes:
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How about this idea. Before "No Defualt Syslog", systemd needs to completely replicate all functionality provided by syslog, including /var/log/messages, by default. Syslog emulation would be an option, and if people don't want it, they can still turn that option off. But by default, everyone can still grep /var/log/messages.
Not. Gonna. Happen.
OK, how about this other idea. Include a default-on systemd service that runs
journalctl --full -f > /var/log/messages
in the background.
Such service is called ”rsyslog” and the whole thread is about installing it by default.