[lug] Thoughts on upgrading to CentOS 7

[Zan Lynx]

On 3/25/2018 9:32 AM, Rob Nagler wrote:

> Consider logrotate, which out-of-the-box does not rotate systemd logs. 
> Worse, the journal is not persisted by default on most distros. If you 
> don't look at these things, you wouldn't know this. I don't know how an 
> "enterprise" operating systems could persist to tmpfs by default.

If CentOS defaults to rsyslog, which I think they do, then there's no 
reason to keep the journal around. It's duplicated by rsyslog into the 
regular text logs in /var/log. Then those would be rotated. In that case 
storing journal in temporary storage is a great idea.