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The Strained Relationship Between Systemd and Syslog

posted by martyb on Sunday April 19 2015, @06:02PM   
from the with-all-this-logging-we-need-a-lumberjack dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

World-renowned Unix master Chris Siebenmann has written an article entitled 'I wish systemd would get over its thing about syslog'. It addresses the strained relationship between the systemd init system and the traditional syslog approach to logging used on many Linux systems.

Chris writes:

Anyone who works with systemd soon comes to realize that systemd just doesn't like syslog very much. In fact systemd is so unhappy with syslog that it invented its own logging mechanism (in the form of journald). This is not news. What people who don't have to look deeply into the situation often don't realize is that systemd's dislike is sufficiently deep that systemd just doesn't interact very well with syslog.

This is a must-read article for anyone who needs to use systemd and syslog together.

• Re:Journald - different but not worse (Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Sunday April 19 2015, @10:17PM

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Sunday April 19 2015, @10:17PM (#172948) Homepage

  > and there's no way you can fake them like some malware in the passed was known to do
  
  If you have software on your system that's trying to do that, it's probably no longer your system anyway.

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