[systemd-devel] Native Journal source vs syslog forwarding

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 28.11.14 14:53, Martin Pitt (martin.pitt at ubuntu.com) wrote:

> Hey Gergely,
> 
> Gergely Nagy [2014-11-26 13:07 +0100]:
> > Forwarding is enabled by default on Debian, as I wrote in my
> > original mail. I have no control over the default, and I have no
> > desire to argue for changing it.
> 
> I'm just packaging systemd 217, and will revert the disabled
> forwarding by default (i. e. retain the behaviour of 215). As a
> systemd package maintainer I'm also not in a position to unilaterally
> changing the default and breaking rsyslog and friends. So this
> requires some coordination indeed (and either way, none of this is a
> matter for the frozen jessie).
> 
> So we either need the journal.conf.d/ feature and have journal-pulling
> sysloggers disable forwarding along the way, or we need to wait until
> all packaged sysloggers can read from the journal before we turn off
> forwarding by default.

On Fedora all loggers apparently read from the journal directly now,
to my knowledge. So the code at least is there.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat