On Monday 15 July 2013 13:23:29 Lennart Poettering wrote:
Hence, the choice between "journal by default + syslog optional" and "journal optional + syslog by default" does not exist. The choice between "journal by default + syslog by default" and "journal by default
- syslog optional" however does.
I would choose "journal by default + syslog by default". In fact, I would rather have systemd write text fies... (if binary files are *needed* I would even dare to say that we should write the text version as well)
But anyway, I'd still like to hear the technical reasoning for the opinion you expressed.
Technical reason? It's been already mentioned on this thread:
You can read text files with whatever reader you'd like (or even shell built-ins) rather than relying on a binary reader.
I've read the "Benefits to Fedora section" and I don't think they are significant enough to remove syslog from the default installation.
Just my two cents,
Regards,
Marc Deop