On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 15:13:24 -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Thursday 28 November 2024 07:15:48 pm Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Install the rsyslog package also. This will give you traditional, > > human-readable log files in /var/log/. > > > > Without that package, all of your logs live in systemd's journal. > > You should be able to find them there, with some effort, but many > > people (including me) prefer to have text files in /var/log/. > > What's gained by them having changed this? (I wonder that about a lot of > stuff.)
My understanding is that the systemd journal Is Not Going Away And Tough Nuts To You If You Don't Like It. With that in mind, the human-readable log files were considered redundant, and removing rsyslog from the default package set reduces "wasted" disk space storing two copies of the same logs. Now, you might ask why the systemd journal is being preferred and kept over human-readable log files. I don't think anyone on debian-user knows the answer to this. So, I would advise not bothering to ask here.
