#multilog — Public Fediverse posts

@PCzanik @shuLhan

FWIW, I still detest journald. Yes, there are problems with the way #syslog traditionally handled text files - but the solution to that is to fix that handling, not toss them out and replace it with a binary format.

text logging can absolutely be done safely and with no risk of message loss. `multilog` and friends proved that. And unlike journald, I can explain #multilog/daemontools to a novice in 5 minutes and they can still use all the regular tools on the logs.

In today's news, a long-known and long-solved problem bites users around the world yet again.

#ASUS routers are still, in 2023, using the old "newsyslog" log rotation mechanism from the 20th century, that was replaced by vastly better ones in the 1990s. ASUS's malware checker went mad and started logging the same message over and over really fast. This filled up the tmpfs holding the log files and broke the routers.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35983866

#s6 #cyclog #multilog #daemontools @ska

Ben Bolker @bbolker was talking about my infamous #multilog paper (Dushoff, Jonathan. 1996. “Multi-Log Transforms Improve Precision in Ecology.” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America), so I rescued the preprint, see https://github.com/dushoff/notebook/blob/master/outputs/multilog.pdf