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OpenSSH 6.2 released

OpenSSH 6.2 released

Posted Mar 25, 2013 18:35 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: OpenSSH 6.2 released by Cyberax
Parent article: OpenSSH 6.2 released

how does it know what messages it should group together?

If you are talking about having to do custom configurations to group the messages together, tools exist that can do this with syslog messages as well.


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OpenSSH 6.2 released

Posted Mar 25, 2013 18:38 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Because it can group messages by process. So it makes extraction much easier, compared to the usual syslog files that can have interleaved messages.

OpenSSH 6.2 released

Posted Mar 25, 2013 18:42 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

grouping by process does not solve the problem the OP was having with the multiple messages.

It's pretty trivial to group or split syslog messages by the program name.

If you're going to say that Journald is better than syslog, you really should compare it against a modern syslog implementation (syslog-ng, rsyslog, nxlog, logstash, etc), not the historic syslog daemon. Every distro I know of except openwrt has converted over to a modern syslog daemin, and even openwrt has syslog-ng as an option.

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