On 3/7/19 11:25 PM, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: >> This package instructs journald to duplicate everything sent to the >> journal to the serial console. The serial console is a pretty rate >> limited log output device and blocking there will make all software with >> any log output block. > > This doesn't seem to affect all software - I tried to reproduce with > logger, but it doesn't block. Maybe this only affects some logging > transports? > > I agree it's a problematic default - GCE serial console data is > currently stored unencrypted. That could be an unpleasent surprise. > > Ross
Ross, Bastian is right that what's been done is a very bad idea. I would suggest that you the issue is taken seriously, and the change be reverted. In many situation, the serial port wont be fast enough. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
