Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd
On February 5, 2020 12:35:45 PM UTC, Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> wrote:
>On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 07:44 +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> Do syslog facilities really have to be addressed by number rather
>than name? That seems like a horrible interface.
>
>Currently yes. There is an upstream bug asking for a way to specify
>them by name[1], but nobody implemented it yet.
>
>I think a `--facility` option should be fairly easy to implement. Just
>adapt some code from the existing `--identifier` and `--priority`
>options, there is already a method to translate facility names to
>numbers (see calls to `log_facility_unshifted_from_string`).
>
>Ansgar
>
> [1]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9716
Thanks. That seems like a pretty basic feature.
My impression so far is that the journalctl interface is a regression from what we have now in every way I care about. I really don't think that, despite the undoubted architectural advantages, it's suitable to be Debian's default.
Scott K
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