On February 5, 2020 12:35:45 PM UTC, Ansgar <ans...@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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