[systemd-devel] [RFC] systemd syslogd

[Bill Nottingham]

William Douglas (william.r.douglas at gmail.com) said: 
> For minimal distributions it is useful for systemd to have a
> syslogd as this avoids the need for extra packages
> (cron, rsyslog, syslog-ng, logrotate).

My concern here is that this is the sort of thing that seems pretty
clearly out of the general usage scope for systemd. Most all of the
things that systemd includes are things that are useful on the majority
of systemd systems, or are something that none of the existing versions
are really best-of-breed yet (readahead). However, syslog daemons are
all fairly well standardized, and I'm not sure we want to spend a lot
of resources in systemd maintaining one. As such, if you really want a
minimal syslog, it's probably best to handle as a separate project.
(svlogd already exists, for example.)

Bill