On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 02:35:19PM +0000, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
On February 2, 2020 12:02:33 PM UTC, Simon khng <simon.omni.acc@gmail.com> wrote:Why was rsyslog used as the persistent storage instead of journald for previous Debian distribution?rsyslog has been the default Debian log storage since before switching to systemd, possibly since before systemd existed (it was syslogd, but would have to check if it was rsyslog or some other implementation).
Way back at the beginning there was syslogd, that got combined early on with klogd into the sysklogd package, rsyslogd replaced it on default installs in lenny (released 2009). So yes, the reason is that it predates systemd. :)