On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 02:51:59PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > Just wanted to chime in here: systemd's journald always takes over > /dev/log. This usually means any syslog() calls end up in the > journal. > If rsyslog is installed, it takes those messages from journald and > writes them into the usual plaintext log files. I believe the same > is true for the other syslog daemons. > > Now, I -think- systemd does not provide system-log-daemon as that > interface probably should have a syslog.service unit, by-default > persistent log files and so on.
Yep, that seems reasonable. > If RT uses /dev/log (via syslog() or the equivalent Perl interface), > its credible to use RT with journald-only logging. I think > Recommends would be fine here. Most systems will still have a syslog > daemon installed, because rsyslog is still Priority: important. Excellent points, thanks. I'll downgrade from Depends to Recommends.
