> And the outputs of these files are the exact same text streams you are > used to. However, enhanced with a lot of niceties that make them more > user friendly. For example, you get colors based on the log level, or > there's a line drawn between reboots. You get the time zone corrected, > and you get unconditional PID data, you can filter very very easy, the > data is unfakable and so on. So, despite what you just said, the output is *not* the exact same text, and thus not a direct replacement for it? /me shudders to think of all the sed/awk/perl scripts you're planning on breaking. I still vote "no" on dropping a default /var/log/messages. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel