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System logsSystem logsPosted Jul 1, 2005 12:59 UTC (Fri) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071)In reply to: Dealing with disk I/O problems by xorbe Parent article: Dealing with disk I/O problems
Chances are that if you've ever tried to write a program to parse the system log and notify the user of errors, it'd be fairly obvious why. Doing so is a screaming nightmare.
Having important messages broadcast out over D-Bus could be a really nice feature. Apps could listen only to messages they care about, without having to follow a log that's potentially full of reams of crud. It should be possible to do it much more reliably than tailing syslog, too.
I can see why folks would be concerned about the duplication of functionality, but I tend to see syslog (or at least klog) as a dinosaur that might be in need of a replacement. Preferably a replacement that can still write out syslog, but can also give programs access to the errors in a more useful way. This is one thing the Windows folks have the right idea with IMO - though their own implementation has its (large) fair share of issues, too.
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