[Nix-dev] Will there be a systemd replacement at any time inthe future?

[Paul Colomiets]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> wrote:
>>As a sysadmin, I love systemd and journald. If you want to maintain lots of
>>disparate things and look all over the OS while troubleshooting, good for
>>you, but systemctl and journalctl make life so much easier. Upstart is a
>>very poor substitute.
>
> What are the keys for journalctl to make it work? Because it wants to
> read hundreds of megabytes of data just for showing me last 20 lines of
> some log — way worse than tail.
>
> Also, could you submit a patch that makes systemd log stderr of services
> reliably (stdout too)? We had it with Upstart, but with Systemd it got
> lost and I am not sure how to make it automatic for all services.
>

Well, what's make it unreliable? I think systemd always logs
stdout/stderr. And it's seen with "journalctl -u NAME" and "systemctl
status NAME".

May be I've not logged hundreds of megabytes to systemd yet. Does't
break when traffic is too high?

-- 
Paul