[Mageia-dev] [RFC] rsyslog vs journalctl

Fri Feb 8 11:00:31 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and AL13N at 07/02/13 18:43 did gyre and gimble:
+> Op donderdag 7 februari 2013 15:10:43 schreef Guillaume Rousse:
+>> Le 07/02/2013 14:40, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+>>> Is anyone against the name "system-logger"? If so I'll update things
+>>> accordingly. Other name suggestions welcome.
+>>
+>> Fine with me.
+> 
+> that's fine.
+> 
+> i just mentioned this because iirc lennart at his talk in FOSDEM said that 
+> journald didn't do remote syslogging
+
+Yup, for remote syslogging you still want a syslog. There are various
+things you can do with the journal remotely (e.g. you can mount remote
+journals via NFS to a single machine and then read all the logs in via
+the -m command to journalctl, or you can use the journal gatewayd to get
+a nice web interface to the logs on remote machines. There will be
+further efforts to do networking with the journal, but due to the fact
+it carries a lot more metadata than plain syslog, it cannot go directly
+via syslog protocol anyway.
+
+But yeah, if you want remote syslog logging, just install rsyslog or
+similar :)
+
+Col
+
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