The journald design is horrible to the point of useless

Posted Nov 21, 2011 8:52 UTC (Mon) by michich (guest, #17902)
In reply to: The journald design is horrible to the point of useless by aleXXX
Parent article: That newfangled Journal thing

The UUID does not replace the human-readable text of the message. It is an optional addition to it.

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The journald design is horrible to the point of useless

Posted Nov 21, 2011 11:47 UTC (Mon) by vrfy (guest, #13362) [Link] (1 responses)

Right, the UUIDs are just attached to general useful messages which are meant to be recognized by machines. In these cases the UUID + the key/values replace the unreliable regex log parsing.

The human readable part of the message is still passed to syslog the same way as is always was.

The text says: "Most projects will probably never generate more than 30 of these during their entire development time", which should illustrate that this is in no way *every* message.

But hey, why reading the text when you can match on a few keywords, mix some random things from your head into it, and start talking?

The journald design is horrible to the point of useless

Posted Nov 23, 2011 23:01 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

so why create an entirely new way to log instead of just putting your UUID in your 'regular' log message?