24 Jun
2024
24 Jun
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1 a.m.
On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 11:47:52AM +1000, Alexis wrote:
Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> writes:
Systemd certainly isn't a pioneer in terms of binary log files. The
first such "innovation" that I can think of is Ultrix's (and later
OSF/1 and Tru64)'s uerf (Ultrix error report formatter). AIX also had
binary error logs that needed to be decoded using the errpt command.
And Solaris's audit logs are also stored in a binary format.
All of these "innovations" consider it a Feature that it becomes
easier to store and filter on structured data, instead of trying to
write complex regex's to pull out events that match some particular
query.
- Ted
My server runs Sendmail, and I have no idea what
"journalctl" is (it
sounds Penguin-ish, which I definitely don't run).
It's systemd's program for accessing the binary logs it generates. So, yes,
it's Penguin, in the sense that systemd is explicitly not supported on
anything other than Linux.