On 9 October 2012 16:08, Lennart Poettering <mzerq...@0pointer.de> wrote: > On Tue, 09.10.12 15:41, Stephen John Smoogen (smo...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> On 9 October 2012 15:24, Lennart Poettering <mzerq...@0pointer.de> wrote: >> > On Tue, 09.10.12 16:53, Simo Sorce (s...@redhat.com) wrote: >> >> > If you want audit-like semantics with crashing if we cannot write, then >> > use something else, not the journal. The journal is supposed to be >> > robust and do the right thing so that you can leave it unnatteneded and >> > whatever happens it didn't spill the disk or become unavailable. It's >> > supposed to be "zero maintainance". >> >> So in those cases rsyslog would be required, but would be seen as a >> post-install step. >> >> EG what you are looking at is building a GNOME-OS and for those sorts >> of tablets, etc the journal is right for that. The other cases like at >> a Hospital, trading firm or various .gov.XX then having rsyslog >> installed with audit post would be the way to get the needed features. > > This is BS. The journal is for most folks, not just GNOME users.
Ugh.. look I was trying to restate exactly what you said in previous emails to make sure I understood what you were saying and to show I agreed where that is coming from.. and it looks like I dropped some packets somewhere By GNOME-OS I meant a particular use-case where a journal would be useful and it is built for like you said in previous emails. Change GNOME-OS to Fedora, KDE-OS, Mozilla-OS, whatever.. it is a use case for a lot of people. Sites that need specialized big business needs are going to need something like rsyslog because they have limited case issues.. like never over-writing logs, halting when logs fill up, etc. Those are written in regulations that aren't going to change in anytime before say RHEL-10 comes out. > How many people actually enable "auditctl -f2"? There's probably not > many except a few three letter agencies and similar folks. The hospital servers I helped work with had to have it for HIPAA and SOX Banes. The money systems that had PCI-DSS also had it on some. But I am agreeing with you it is a small case. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "Don't derail a useful feature for the 99% because you're not in it." Linus Torvalds "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
