[Mageia-dev] ANN: Persistent journal logs now enabled.

Sun Oct 28 23:54:47 CET 2012

Hi,
+
+Just a quick announcement that I've enabled persistent journal logs in
+systemd.
+
+This means the journal logs for your machine will be written in
+/var/log/journal.
+
+You will now be able to use journalctl to get log information about more
+than just the current boot. You are also free to set up Forward Secure
+Sealing on the journal logs in order to detect when logs have been
+tampered with in the event of a breaking.
+
+As the journal can capture all syslog logs, systemd now also provides
+syslog-daemon. If we decide that the journal should be optional for mga3
+we will simply move the virtual provides and the ownership of the
+/var/log/journal folder to a subpackage, but for now, everyone will get
+it and see how we get on!
+
+You are now free to "rpm -e rsyslog" and do away with legacy logging.
+
+For more info on how to use journalctl, please read here:
+http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/journalctl.html
+
+For developers who want to enable journal logging in their apps (beyond
+the simple capabilities of syslog) see here:
+http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/journal-submit.html
+
+Col
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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