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The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

Posted Nov 23, 2011 23:31 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement by ziggyfish
Parent article: The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

that program name and pid is data provided as part of the log written by the application, so the application can lie about both.

However,fixing this doesn't require making changes that are nearly this drastic.

systemd is already planning to create a new container for each application (with cgroups, etc), have it create a new filesystem namespace as well with a different /dev/log and the existing modern syslog daemons (rsyslog and syslog-ng) can record which container the log came from.


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