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

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.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by tibman on Monday April 20 2015, @01:44PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 20 2015, @01:44PM (#173120)

    aaaand i just learned that journald (optionally) has a small webserver in it : /

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