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The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

Posted Nov 18, 2011 18:17 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement by quotemstr
Parent article: The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

This seems ill-advised, because logs might need to be analyzed some point in the future. They are critical data, and you never want to have a problem reading your critical data.

I don't care if they leave things loose during the initial design and evaluation, but you don't want to deploy this thing on a server you care about unless they tighten it up.


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The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

Posted Nov 18, 2011 20:14 UTC (Fri) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

I also keep critical data in a PostgreSQL database which can only be read by a single program - PostgreSQL. It would probably be nice to be able to read it with a text editor, but then I'd probably lose all the benefits PostgreSQL gives me, so I can live with it. As I will with having to use some command like logread on my wireless router to get at the logs.

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