On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 08:56:45AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 02:52:40PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 07/17/2013 12:06 PM, Marc Deop i Argemí wrote:
On Wednesday 17 July 2013 03:20:42 Lennart Poettering wrote:
As mentioned before, if people run programs that require
/var/log/messages they should simply install rsyslog and be done with
it.
That terribly sounds like "my way or the high way".
Many people have raised concerns not only about having /var/log/messages in the base installation but about needing/wanting *simple text* logs by default as well.
I for one, advocate against having to use a (forced)tool to read log files.
So do I.
Are you also against compression of log files?
IMO, log files need to be readable without any special tools, because log files often are being read in cases of emergencies/breakdown (occasionally even from other OSes), when one can not rely on the tools being available or usable.
Even when you think it's better, many *do not*.
ACK-
Ralf
Is there a way to read binary journals from non-Linux OSes?
Compiling journalctl on UINXy OSes should not be too much of a problem. You'd need dbus >= 1.4.0, libcap, liblzma (if used by the journal files in question). Not trivial but certainly doable.
Zbyszek