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Across companies, jobs, and hobbyist collaborators - I've never met someone who didn't at least like systemd, if not sing its praises. It made so many incredibly painful things about Linux administration disappear.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The whole post does have a somewhat hyperbolic tone to it. Personally, I agree with the content and analysis, but I could see the language could feel a bit off-putting, especially given the past flame wars over systemd
It's a lighthearted post, so probably not worth tone policing.
I am not a sysadmin -- so I keep forgetting the command to see logs cause I only need it once every 3 months. So, systemd change is a pain for me.
You had to either use some (often abandoned) third party tool or defeat the purpose by just reconfiguring everything to dump a text log to a file.
Does anyone actually use journald? The last time I tried(2 years ago?) it didn't even work with any log management software (like cloudwatch for example). You had to either use some (often abandoned) third party tool or defeat the purpose by just reconfiguring everything to dump a text log to a file.
Plenty of log shippers can slurp journald. (Fluentd, filebeat, vector)
Even ChromeOS uses it, even on devices that still use Upstart.
Does anyone actually use journald? The last time I tried(2 years ago?) it didn't even work with any log management software (like cloudwatch for example). You had to either use some (often abandoned) third party tool or defeat the purpose by just reconfiguring everything to dump a text log to a file.
Does anyone actually use journald? The last time I tried(2 years ago?) it didn't even work with any log management software (like cloudwatch for example). You had to either use some (often abandoned) third party tool or defeat the purpose by just reconfiguring everything to dump a text log to a file.
journalctl --follow --tail --no-trunc -b 0
If it’s my responsibility then I will use a non-systemd distribution or if I have a choice, FreeBSD.
The parts I don’t really like are the half baked “ancillary” managers like resolvd, which are frankly baffling to use and tend to make simple things needlessly difficult.
Does anyone actually use journald? The last time I tried(2 years ago?) it didn't even work with any log management software (like cloudwatch for example). You had to either use some (often abandoned) third party tool or defeat the purpose by just reconfiguring everything to dump a text log to a file.
The preferred journald way of "fetch your logs periodically" wouldn't pass any audit and doesn't work with any kind of log processing software that people use.