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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    2 months ago

    On non-corpo linux syslog can be disabled

    systemctl disable --now systemd-journald

    I’d prefer to just symlink/mount /var/log to a memory filesystem instead

    Set Storage=volatile in /etc/systemd/journald.conf

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        2 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.