On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:58:40PM -0400, Ding Yi Chen wrote: > You still have not addressed the third party programs and scripts > that monitor /var/log/messages A) If someone is installing a program that expects this file, they can also install rsyslog. B) Fedora, RHEL, and most Red Hat derived distributions use /var/log/messages, but not all do -- for example, Rocks (common in HPC) breaks out syslog messages into individual files per facility. Debian and Ubuntu? Totally diferent. (/var/log/syslog) So, these third-party scripts need to be flexible anyway. I don't think this is a very strong point in the conversation. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
