[systemd-devel] Antw: Re: Antw: [EXT] Re: Q; syslog.socket dependency

Ulrich Windl Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de
Fri Mar 12 10:51:02 UTC 2021


>>> Michael Chapman <mike at very.puzzling.org> schrieb am 12.03.2021 um 11:27 in
Nachricht <dcf3c57-b335-1a9-6d81-cf28e3f613b3 at very.puzzling.org>:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> [...]
>> > Can you think of a better way of wording the documentation? 
>> 
>> It depends: Do you consider /dev/log to be a "syslog socket"?
>> (I'm not running rsyslog there)
> 
> I'm not quite sure what you mean. If where you're going is "well 
> *obviously* syslog.socket refers to /dev/log", then ... maybe that's true, 
> but that ship has sailed. It simply doesn't, it means what it currently 
> means: the socket by which journald sends messages to some other syslog 
> daemon (if any).

Then yes: Change the documentation.






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