[ale] [Fwd: Advertising on ale.org] - OT MS vs Apple vs Linux/UNIX

[Derek Atkins]

"Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at dsservices.com> writes:

> With RHEL7 you still have /var/log/messages (along with Journald) but
> they may turn it off later.
>
> I believe you CAN setup syslog manually on Fedora if you still want it
> but Journald can also be set to allow for saving logs (by default it
> gets cleared on boot) and you can likely tell logwatch to use
> journalctl to scan for what you want.

logwatch certainly does not look at journald by default..  So it's not
that they changed things, but that things broke as part of the change.

Also, fail2ban stopped working, too, for similar reasons.

> If you're using Fedora vs RHEL/CentOS you're doing bleeding edge
> anyway so complaining that it changes things on you seems a bit
> disingenuous.
>
> Sith-temd Lord says come to the dark side...

-derek

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