Brandon Applegate

tl;dr Reverting my Debian 12 machines to rsyslogd / actual files in /var/log/ Just posting this for anyone else running Debian 12 (or anything else that insists on using systemd journal for all logging). I decided to go a bit nuclear and use this persons blog: https://www.going-flying.com/blog/debian-bookworm-journald.html Venting a bit - but good heavens I shouldn't have to fight this hard to operate on logs.

Yes the drift I mention - I was referring to Debian. I will check out that discussion. I also cut a snapshot of a VM, removed the debian package, and tries 7.7 from source. Same behavior :( Thanks for your quick response.

Hello all, I have been using logwatch for over a decade (maybe two ?). Has always worked beautifully. I recently bit the bullet and took my Debian 10/11 machines to 12. Hoo boy. Is this just me - or is this excruciatingly difficult using journalctl ? Here are some of my issues: What is the empty LogFile = for ? I have this and then I have LogFile = null (I have null.conf pointing to an empty file in /var/log). This empty/duplicate line actually seems necessary !? I have a Debian 12 machine that I...

Hello all, I have been using logwatch for over a decade (maybe two ?). Has always worked beautifully. I recently bit the bullet and took my Debian 10/11 machines to 12. Hoo boy. Is this just me - or is this excruciatingly difficult using journalctl ? Here are some of my issues: What is the empty LogFile = for ? I have this and then I have LogFile = null (I have null.conf pointing to an empty file in /var/log). This empty/duplicate line actually seems necessary !? I have a Debian 12 machine that I...

Hello all, I have been using logwatch for over a decade (maybe two ?). Has always worked beautifully. I recently bit the bullet and took my Debian 10/11 machines to 12. Hoo boy. Is this just me - or is this excruciatingly difficult using journalctl ? Here are some of my issues: What is the empty LogFile = for ? I have this and then I have LogFile = null (I have null.conf pointing to an empty file in /var/log). This empty/duplicate line actually seems necessary !? I have a Debian 12 machine that I...

Hello all, I have been using logwatch for over a decade (maybe two ?). Has always worked beautifully. I recently bit the bullet and took my Debian 10/11 machines to 12. Hoo boy. Is this just me - or is this excruciatingly difficult using journalctl ? Here are some of my issues: What is the empty LogFile = for ? I have this and then I have LogFile = null (I have null.conf pointing to an empty file in /var/log). This empty/duplicate line actually seems necessary !? I have a Debian 12 machine that I...

Fully updated 10.13. onosendai:~ vom$ ls -lhta /usr/lib/libcrypto.* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18B Oct 8 06:46 /usr/lib/libcrypto.dylib -> libcrypto.35.dylib -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4.1M Sep 21 00:35 /usr/lib/libcrypto.41.dylib -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1.9M Sep 21 00:35 /usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2.5M Sep 21 00:35 /usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.8.dylib -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4.0M Sep 21 00:35 /usr/lib/libcrypto.35.dylib onosendai:~ vom$ strings /usr/lib/libcrypto.35.dylib | fgrep...