On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Konstantin Ryabitsev <icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? What part of "Run the syslog daemon like you always did, if you need syslog files." did you not understand? Kay -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
