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syslog vs other solutions

syslog vs other solutions

Posted Nov 8, 2012 16:37 UTC (Thu) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
In reply to: syslog vs other solutions by ovitters
Parent article: LCE: Systemd two years on

For how long?

The Arch Linux people said you can still use init scripts… now Arch Linux is dead.

And I will GR against a switch to systemd in Debian, should that become necessary.


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syslog vs other solutions

Posted Nov 8, 2012 19:24 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

As long as people are willing to take the time and energy to update various parts. When they no longer want to do that and no one steps up to replace them.. the feature is dead.

syslog vs other solutions

Posted Nov 9, 2012 0:08 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Syslog compat code in Journal is trivial - it just forwards messages to a specific socket:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/jour...

There's nothing complicated there, so it can be easily maintained indefinitely.

>now Arch Linux is dead.
That'd be a news for a lot of Arch users.

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