Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> Are you actually looking for syslog per se here, or are you primarily
> interested in logging of stderr generally?
I am specifically looking for syslog. I consider logging to disk files to
be significantly inferior: I can't use rsyslog to send them to Splunk or
any other central log server, I have to figure out some special
incantation to safely rotate them instead of just throwing them into the
syslog rotation rules, and the date stamp format isn't picked up from the
general rsyslog configuration.
Our existing Tomcat init scripts already capture Tomcat output in local
disk files, so upstart currently doesn't add much value there. Getting
them into syslog would be quite helpful.
This is a relatively minor thing since one can set up some simple
pipelines to do this (and you can tell that it's minor in that we've not
done that work yet), but for something as critical as logging it's nice to
not have to worry about the other end of the pipeline dying and not
getting restarted or having log messages lost when it does.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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