Re: Being part of a community and behaving
>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Ouellette <pouelle@debian.org> writes:
Patrick> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:06:08PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
Patrick> I did not ask for evangelization about how wonderful binary
Patrick> logs are, nor for a lesson on how to get the info out of
Patrick> systemd with the systemctl command.
Patrick> I am glad you like them and they work for you. For me they
Patrick> add another level of obfuscation, a speed bump and a
Patrick> potential point of failure. All of which are
Patrick> unnecessary. Cat <logfile>, more <logfile> less <logfile>,
Patrick> grep <term> <logfile> -- all worked well and continue to do
Patrick> so for my text file logs. Awk, emacs, vi, all work on them
Patrick> too. My log management tools all expect my old plain text
Patrick> formatted logs.
I'm confused. Are you saying that cat <logfile> isn't working for you
with systemd on jessie?
I'm honestly asking for information here.
As best I can tell on my system everything that gets logged gets logged
to text log files.
Some of it also gets logged to the journal.
--Sam
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