That newfangled Journal thing

Posted Nov 21, 2011 0:41 UTC (Mon) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: That newfangled Journal thing by dlang
Parent article: That newfangled Journal thing

> and if someone does so, what is going to make the logs any more structured than the logs created by syslog(3) today?
You can't make something out of nothing.

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That newfangled Journal thing

Posted Nov 21, 2011 1:17 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm not understanding your comment. are you agreeing that the journal won't help enforce formatting? or are you claiming that syslog messages cannot ever be well formatted? (or something else)

That newfangled Journal thing

Posted Nov 21, 2011 3:23 UTC (Mon) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

The point I was trying to make is that you can't expect the journal to generate structured logging messages from programs which weren't written with structured logging in mind.