>> On Tue 14 Jul 2026 at 00:39:50 (-0400), Sven Hartge wrote:
>
> I'd go as far as to say that the vast majority of non-server systems
> does not need a traditional syslog deamon.
Beg to differ. It's very handy to have around if you run (say) a
backup script from cron and have
logger -t 'backups' start
# rsync or whatever
logger -t 'backups' finish
leave a nice message for you.
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