Steve Langasek writes ("Bug#727708: Quick upstart and systemd feature comparison"): > It would be a straightforward incremental change on top of the existing > logging support in Upstart. I'm not sure it's such a great idea to have > some logs going to /var/log/upstart and some going via syslog, however; the > resulting user/admin confusion may outweigh any benefit from supporting > syslog.
Perhaps it would be possible to have a global setting that changes the effect of "log console" to use syslog. > Are you actually looking for syslog per se here, or are you primarily > interested in logging of stderr generally? Upstart already does that by > default, it just logs it to /var/log/upstart instead of to syslog (for > reasons of avoiding a dependency on on external daemon for debuggability). Many people are fans of syslog. I'm sure I don't have to explain why. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/21172.37379.983143.767...@chiark.greenend.org.uk