On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 05:43:49PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > >> that seems like a bit of odd logic. The logs are emitted to syslog with >> the same thought in mind - that someone will read them - but that is >> also not necessarily true. But I would not want to see us discarding >> syslog, either. > > We have a range of utilities that perform useful syslog parsing. The > fact that most of them then seem to pass that output to sendmail leaves > me a little less convinced that anyone pays the slightest bit of > attention to them. > > More realistically, we install syslog because it gives us debug > information that we (as developers) wouldn't otherwise be able to get. I see syslog as the equivalent of the event log in that other OS. You can easily view it with a basic "less /var/log/someLog" or a gui viewer (not sure if we install that by default) or even some notification method. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
