That newfangled Journal thing

Posted Nov 24, 2011 15:15 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: That newfangled Journal thing by dlang
Parent article: That newfangled Journal thing

I'm familiar with rsyslogd, thank you very much. However, I think any long-overdue improvements to the logging infrastructure should not depend on running specific software packages at either end. In particular, rsyslogd is still being fed free-format, unauthenticated syslog-style messages it may be quite a bit more clever in dealing with them than plain syslogd, but there are still opportunities for improvement that rsyslogd alone does not address.

I'm not saying that Lennart's and Kay's proposal should immediately be adopted by everyone. I don't even think Lennart and Kay expect that. We should really consider it as a starting point for tests and a reasonable discussion, rather than dismiss it outright as »heresy« or some of the other things that have been mentioned here.