On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday 11 December 2025 10:24:21 pm The Wanderer wrote: > > That's certainly one of the major aspects of the reasons I don't care > > for the systemd ways of doing logging. I recognize that they have their > > advantages, and that there are good reasons people went to the trouble > > of implementing them; I just don't think those advantages outweigh the > > proprietariness-or-something-similar disadvantages, in most cases. > > I'd be interested in hearing what those advantages are.
A couple of reasons come to mind: * Avoiding injections - Systemd's format makes it easier to parse logs, and avoid things like fake timestamps injection. * Remote logging - It ensures an audit trail in case a server is compromised. * Aggregated logging - dropping logs at a centralized dropping point for tools like Splunk. Users can usually achieve the same with a tool like Rsyslog. Systemd makes it a core feature. > I keep bumping into things that are major changes away from what I'm used to > and understand, and the first thing that comes to mind for me is "Why?"... I miss being able to grep my log files, too. I gave up years ago. Jeff
