If I’m using Arch or another minimal distro, is it a good idea to install a syslog daemon? Or can I go without?

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    3 months ago

    Like how you cropped my message to make it seem like I was implying you couldn’t disable logging on systemd

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      3 months ago

      Then what’s the meaning of this whole part?

      On non-corpo linux syslog can be disabled if you want, though I’d prefer to just symlink/mount /var/log to a memory filesystem instead.

      Is it just a random tidbit that could be replaced with a blueberry muffin recipe without any change of meaning of the whole comment? Because it sure won’t help OP at all with their Arch-specific question, so it’s either that, or it provides contrast to the “corpo Linux”, which is how I interpreted it.

      And here’s the remaining part of your comment I left out, just to make sure people won’t lose the context between two three sentence long comments (for those without any attention span, it comes before the previous quoted part):

      If you’re on arch you use redhat’s garbage.

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        3 months ago

        OP was asking about syslog so I answered about using using syslog. You’re reading too much into it. They asked if they could go with or without a syslog daemon, so I told them they can disable syslog if they want to. They did not ask about journald so I didn’t answer about journald.