[systemd-devel] [RFC/PATCH] journal over the network

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 11/20/2012 09:02 AM, Adam Spragg wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 Nov 2012 01:21:54 Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> My intention was to speak only HTTP for all of this, so that we can
>> nicely work through firewalls.
> Wait, I thought one of the guiding principles of systemd was to do things The
> Right Way, and not use ugly workarounds for other people's brokenness.
>
> If admins want to send network traffic over a port, and their firewall is
> preventing them, surely the problem is in the firewall, and the firewall
> should be fixed? Making everything HTTP-friendly to get around broken firewall
> policies is an ugly workaround which just helps perpetuate the problem.

Agreed + you dont want to use ssh to do this ether

>
> Not to mention the fact that HTTP is a horrible protocol for almost anything
> except serving up web pages. It's effectively implements a basic
> request/response datagram protocol (albeit with arbitrarily large "packets"),
> which can only be initiated from one side, but with the overhead of HTTP
> headers and the creation of a TCP connection.
>

Agreed

I somehow always imagined remote systemd and systemd journal integration 
being handle in similar manner as func [1] and certmaster[2] are doing.

1. https://fedorahosted.org/func/
2. https://fedorahosted.org/certmaster/

JBG