Hi, Thanks for your heads up.
On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 04:05:55 +0100 Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > with today's upload of systemd 244.1-2 I finally enabled persistent > journal by default [1]. It has been a long requested feature. I read this thread and other info, my thought is Pros) Well, as I read upstream's documentation[1], I prefer persistent journal if they implemented features as they said. Especially journald logging feature seems to be more reliable (tamper-proof) than normal syslog's one. e.g. if someone hacked your system and you found it, then logs are NOT reliable information easily. However, if you've enabled persistent journal, it's hard to falsify it. This change is non-destructive, users can change its default setting to go back to rsyslog as Michael notes. Cons) There are some regression at "reading" logs (e.g. we must specify syslog facilities by number)[2] Users should learn new "How to use journalctl" things. Note) Ubuntu already did this change on upgrades and it is smooth. So, my conclusion is Use "reliable logging system" is good for our users, so I prefer it as the default. If you need more flexibility, then you can install rsyslog or something for your logging system - yes, you have a choice! :) [1] https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1IC9yOXj7j6cdLLxWEBAGRL6wl97tFxgjLUEHIX3MSTs [2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9716 -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.org/iijmio-mail.jp
