On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 04:23:54PM -0500, Billy Crook wrote:
What about a special filesystem mounted at /var/log or filesystem trickery therein that presents contents similar to what everyone expects, backed out of journalctl and its storage then?
It's probably straightforward to write a FUSE filesystem that grabs the needed information from journalctl when read. Mount it somewhere under /run and set up /var/log/messages as a symlink to the corresponding file.
But I don't see the point. Just install rsyslog. It's not going away any time soon.
Lars