Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

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On 07/15/2013 11:22 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:44:44 +0200
> Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> = Proposed System Wide Change: No Default Syslog =
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoDefaultSyslog
>>
>> Change owner(s): Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering net>,
>> Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject org>
>>
>> No longer install a traditional syslog service by default.
>> (Specifically, remove rsyslog from the @core or @standard groups in
>> comps.)
>>
>> The systemd journal will be the default logging solution. Rsyslog,
>> Syslog-NG, and even traditional sysklogd will continue to cover use
>> cases outside of the default. 
> 
> Can  systemd journal be picked up by logwatch?,
> or similarly be emailed on a daily basis,
> without user creating a bagful of scripts?
> 

No, logwatch works only with traditional text-based logs. There is this RFE
filed [1], but that will probably not happen as it would require a total
rewrite. It would make more sense to write a new logwatch-like utility from
scratch, that handles only the journal. It's somewhere on my todo list, but has
quite a low priority:(

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864872

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