was poking around logging and just now noticed that, on my fedora 29 system, both of rsyslog and syslog-ng (and, i'm assuming systemd journalling) are running at the same time. is that normal? i don't recall ever messing with installing additional logging packages, but maybe i did and just don't remember.
in any event, does that configuration even make sense? can all three of those logging services co-exist? or must i have done something weird and illogical at some point to get into this situation?
rday
On 11/9/18 8:02 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
was poking around logging and just now noticed that, on my fedora 29 system, both of rsyslog and syslog-ng (and, i'm assuming systemd journalling) are running at the same time. is that normal? i don't recall ever messing with installing additional logging packages, but maybe i did and just don't remember.
in any event, does that configuration even make sense? can all three of those logging services co-exist? or must i have done something weird and illogical at some point to get into this situation?
Is your system an upgrade from F28? syslog-ng is not installed by default. None of my system have it. Either upgraded or freshly installed.
On Fri, 9 Nov 2018, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 11/9/18 8:02 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
was poking around logging and just now noticed that, on my fedora 29 system, both of rsyslog and syslog-ng (and, i'm assuming systemd journalling) are running at the same time. is that normal? i don't recall ever messing with installing additional logging packages, but maybe i did and just don't remember.
in any event, does that configuration even make sense? can all three of those logging services co-exist? or must i have done something weird and illogical at some point to get into this situation?
Is your system an upgrade from F28? syslog-ng is not installed by default. None of my system have it. Either upgraded or freshly installed.
system-upgrade, and i didn't expect to see syslog-ng there, so i'm thinking that, once upon a time, i installed it perhaps to check it out, and just forgot about it. i'm also going to assume i can get rid of it with no adverse effects, since rsyslog + journald should be sufficient.
rday
On 11/9/18 8:31 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Fri, 9 Nov 2018, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 11/9/18 8:02 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
was poking around logging and just now noticed that, on my fedora 29 system, both of rsyslog and syslog-ng (and, i'm assuming systemd journalling) are running at the same time. is that normal? i don't recall ever messing with installing additional logging packages, but maybe i did and just don't remember.
in any event, does that configuration even make sense? can all three of those logging services co-exist? or must i have done something weird and illogical at some point to get into this situation?
Is your system an upgrade from F28? syslog-ng is not installed by default. None of my system have it. Either upgraded or freshly installed.
system-upgrade, and i didn't expect to see syslog-ng there, so i'm thinking that, once upon a time, i installed it perhaps to check it out, and just forgot about it. i'm also going to assume i can get rid of it with no adverse effects, since rsyslog + journald should be sufficient.
Sure, you can remove it without ill effect.
On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 19:02:29 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote:
in any event, does that configuration even make sense? can all three of those logging services co-exist? or must i have done something weird and illogical at some point to get into this situation?
I know nothing of syslog-ng, but I have my journald configured to do absolutely nothing but forward all log entries to rsyslog so I have no furshlugginer binary logs and get the plain text logs God meant for linux to have :-).
On Thu, 8 Nov 2018, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 19:02:29 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote:
in any event, does that configuration even make sense? can all three of those logging services co-exist? or must i have done something weird and illogical at some point to get into this situation?
I know nothing of syslog-ng, but I have my journald configured to do absolutely nothing but forward all log entries to rsyslog so I have no furshlugginer binary logs and get the plain text logs God meant for linux to have :-).
that sounds like a plan.
rday