(30-10-2016, 05:49 AM)z3bra Wrote: Logging in binary form sucks for me, at it prevent you from investigating with standard tools, accessing logs through a single file sitting in /var/log. it means that you NEED a tool that can read these logs if you want to investigate them. Standard tools made to operate on text streams won't suffice. Binary data can also be corrupted easily.

I completely agree, there's too much that can go wrong with binary logging. I will grant that in the time that I used a setup with systemd, it gave me no problems with log corruption, and I found journalctl to be easy to use. However, my experience does not remove the fact that the possibility is there.

My major beef with systemd is the homogenization of control it has over the system. It seems to me that Pöttering and company are looking for issues (whether true or perceived) and instead of contributing to existing tools, or creating tools to remedy these issues, they increase the scope of systemd to take over that problem. This creates the culture and attitude that systemd detractors rail against, in where the ever-growing tree of dependencies causes more software to require systemd in order to function properly.