On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > This package instructs journald to duplicate everything sent to the > journal to the serial console. The serial console is a pretty rate > limited log output device and blocking there will make all software with > any log output block.
This doesn't seem to affect all software - I tried to reproduce with logger, but it doesn't block. Maybe this only affects some logging transports? I agree it's a problematic default - GCE serial console data is currently stored unencrypted. That could be an unpleasent surprise. Ross
