> Yes, Slackware does not, and likely never will, use systemd.  That's a
> Good Thing in my opinion.  :-)

Indeed.  I run devuan on a couple of boxes for that reason, but I have
found it is not real reliable for my use if I need X windows.  So it runs
on cli only machines and in a couple of VMs.

>  DW>  With the latest version, they've replaced rsyslog with some
>  DW> systemd journaling.  I can learn some new tool(s) to get to the
>  DW> syslog output I want, *IF* they worked as documented which they
>  DW> do not here.

> Yep, I have a Debian box and some other variants and have noticed that
> too.  I don't know much about it, but the "journalctl" command may help.

It might except...

>  DW> I may have to reinstall rsyslog and live with the syslog output
>  DW> being both written to file and (maybe) journaled (although it
>  DW> does not really appear to be like it is supposed to be).

> That's probably an option; don't think it would hurt anything to have two
> logs, if it allows you to use the tools you prefer.  Good luck.

It is not so much that, but journalctl is supposed to be able to show me
the syslog logging if I give it a '-u syslog' but it reports there are no
entries.  Oooops!  ;)


 * SLMR 2.1a * bort etry hoot the SOB!

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