On Wed, 17.10.12 16:13, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johannbg@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On 10/17/2012 03:50 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >the files are stored in > >/var/log/journal/ > > Is it not better to place this under /var/journal/ and leave text > files to /var/log/ to prevent administrators thinking they can treat > the journal files a text files and prevent any kind of script > breakage that expect all files in that directory to be text files? There are already various non-text file formats used in /var/log, fore example btmp and wtmp, bootchart, lastlog, and I think even mysql sometimes puts its binary logs there... I think it's a good idea to have a single point where log-style data is stored, regardless of the format used... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
