Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Steve Langasek writes ("Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison"):
> It would be a straightforward incremental change on top of the existing
> logging support in Upstart.  I'm not sure it's such a great idea to have
> some logs going to /var/log/upstart and some going via syslog, however; the
> resulting user/admin confusion may outweigh any benefit from supporting
> syslog.

Perhaps it would be possible to have a global setting that changes the
effect of "log console" to use syslog.

> Are you actually looking for syslog per se here, or are you primarily
> interested in logging of stderr generally?  Upstart already does that by
> default, it just logs it to /var/log/upstart instead of to syslog (for
> reasons of avoiding a dependency on on external daemon for debuggability).

Many people are fans of syslog.  I'm sure I don't have to explain why.

Ian.