Re: The 🐑 Shepherd gets a service collection

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

[...]

>> I imagine we could develop more convenient services like this, such as a
>> basic command scheduler similar to the ‘at’ command, and a syslogd
>> implementation.  The latter could be nice for a couple of reasons:
>> logging would happen from the start and till the end (an improvement
>> over the external syslogd process), and it could let us provide a nicer
>> user interface to view logs (taking inspiration from that of
>> ‘journalctl’).
>>
>> Thoughts?  Ideas?
>
> While I also find the journalctl interface to be convenient, the
> underlying database logs is costly in terms of storage and complexity

Agreed (that’s why I mentioned the user interface of ‘journalctl’, not
the storage mechanism of ‘journald’).

Ludo’.