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On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:30:12 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vr2753$23hho$4@dont-email.me>:

> On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:57:19 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 
>> Huh, no. I actually prefer syslog.
>> 
>> The other day I had to report a bug in the kernel. To do so I wanted to
>> produce a journal log without private information: mail, and authpriv.
>> Also news because it is too big.
> 
> How would you have done it with syslog?

rsyslog has rule-based filtering -- and since the resulting logs
are text files, grep -v is your friend.

Linux Mint, by default, comes with systemd-journald sending logs
to the syslog socket, and it runs rsyslog.  So, it has a more "standard"
syslog environment for those who prefer that.

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