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Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement (outpost.fosspost.org)

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[–] voracread@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Compared to this what is the advantage of binary form? I thought log files being text was a no brainer.

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[–] uiiiq@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Storage efficiency, faster queries, more metadata, unified format, etc. If your host breaks, you can download the journals and open then elsewhere. Also, there is nothing stopping you from configuring it to output to a file.

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[–] voracread@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Open them elsewhere is also true for text files I guess.

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