On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Patrick Lists
<fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 11/17/2013 11:21 AM, Tim wrote:
>> Allegedly, on or about 17 November 2013, Frantisek Hanzlik sent:
>>> Binary logs, by contrast, may be useless when log file is damaged or I
>>> haven't this one unique utility for reading them. And my experiences
>>> with systems where binary logs are implemented says clearly that
>>> binary logs is bad idea.
>>
>> And if logs are in a format that you cannot read, you cannot safely
>> submit them to an outside server.  You don't know what they contain.
>> Logon credentials, confidential data that you're working on, etc.
>
> IIRC that's the reason why journald supports encryption. I don't recall
> the link but there's a blog post somewhere (on redhat.com?) where the
> reasons for moving to journald were outlined. Might be worth a search if
> you want to know more.

syslog (using rsyslog) already supports encryption of you require that
(even kerberos if that is what you want, we do). Journald is a
solution in search of a problem ;-)
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