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The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

Posted Nov 18, 2011 21:26 UTC (Fri) by elanthis (guest, #6227)
In reply to: The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement by mathstuf
Parent article: The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

Binary data, which is one of the needs for logging certain system events.


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The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

Posted Nov 18, 2011 21:46 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

It can't be escaped in some way? Sure, it bloats the logs, but is it so common as to make *everything* binary? I like keeping exceptional cases exceptional, not reworking things to accomodate all possibilities as if they had equal chances of occurring.

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