[TriLUG] Linux home directory management is about to undergo major change

[Wes Garrison via TriLUG]

Steve and others know a lot more about it than I do, but from my limited
experience one of the frustrations is that systemd replaces longstanding
simple things like discrete log files for services with one monolithic log
file.

What's worse, the log file is in a *binary* format, so to read the log file
I have to type:
journalctl -u servicename -n 30

vs. just being able to:
tail /var/log/exim4/exim.log

Not a huge deal, but just one of many examples of simple services that are
all "consumed" by systemd.

I'm not a power user, so I'm adapting, but I see the frustration.

-Wes
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Wesley S. Garrison
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Xitech Communications, Inc.
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On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 11:38 AM Brian via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> On 5/1/20 9:27 PM, Steve Litt via TriLUG wrote:
> > Systemd is the first piece of system software to
> > actually sabotage other software.
>
> Steve,
> I'm eager to know more about the down-sides to systemd that go beyond my
> knee-jerk "it's different from what I'm used to."  Could you elaborate
> on "sabotage other software"?
>
> -B
>
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