On 11/29/24 15:29, Greg Wooledge wrote:
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.
We are of like minds on this Greg.
I let synaptic update what I thought was just ghostscript about 2 weeks
back, but by the time it was done I had lost the two brother printers I
have, and had to use brothers installer scripts to renew the Brother
drivers from Brothers own repositories. Then they worked again to their
full capabilities as advertised on the box.
Why must there be a constant war between a companies products that
supports their own printers on linux systems? This isn't Epson or Canon
who spits on linux every time they make a new printer or scanner, this
is Brother, who _does_ /fully support/ their product on linux. Stop it.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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