On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Can journalctl send the logs via logwatch? > > Not sure I can parse this, but IIUC you are wondering whether logwatch > is compatible with the journal. Not to my knowledge, no. But adding this > should be fairly easy as the output of "journalctl" is a pixel-perfect > copy of the original format, so where it works on /var/log/messages it > should simply work on the output of journalctl and all should be good. > > Note however that with the capabilities of the journal it might be > interesting to add journal support to logwatch that goes beyond mere > compatibility. For example, tests such as "look for messages which are > claimed to come from PID xyz but actually came from uvw" and suchlike > would be really interesting to have. That information is not available > in the /var/log/messages format however... So, in other words, all our existing log analysis tools have to be modified if they are to be of any use in Fedora 18? Best, -- Konstantin Ryabitsev LinuxFoundation.org Montréal, Québec -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
