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minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up26arrow-down3·edit-23 months agoFucking blows my mind that journald broke what is essentially the default behavior of every distro’s use of logrotate and no one bats an eye.
minus-squaretentacles9999@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoStill boggles my mind that systemd being terrible is still a debate. Like of all things, wouldn’t text logs make sense?
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoWait… it doesn’t store them in plaintext?
minus-squareuranibaba@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoNope, you need journalctl to read.
minus-squaretentacles9999@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoYeah, and you need systemd to read the binary logs. Though I think there may be a setting to change to text logs, I am not sure because I avoid systemd when I can
minus-squarefallingcats@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoWouldn’t compressed logs make even more sense (they way they’re now)?
Fucking blows my mind that journald broke what is essentially the default behavior of every distro’s use of logrotate and no one bats an eye.
Still boggles my mind that systemd being terrible is still a debate. Like of all things, wouldn’t text logs make sense?
Wait… it doesn’t store them in plaintext?
Nope, you need journalctl to read.
That’s asinine.
Yeah, and you need systemd to read the binary logs. Though I think there may be a setting to change to text logs, I am not sure because I avoid systemd when I can
Wouldn’t compressed logs make even more sense (they way they’re now)?