[cookiengineer]

Counter argument: Try implementing support for Alpine, Debian and other distros whilst using a cronjob.

It's impossible. All that opinionated /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.daily shit can go to hell for all I care. Every opinionated distro uses whatever kind of file format that the next best sh guru came up with, which id also prone for exploitation btw.

With systemd there's a failsafe way for maintainers to offer a cross-distro way to integrate their software.

And that's what systemd is about: automation of integration through convention.

[egberts1]

Failsafe?

I'm still experiencing file corruption regularly with journald on various distros.

Cannot recall corruption nor unreadability with syslog.

[kaba0]

Then you have some corrupted hardware.

Also, syslog wasn’t capable of logging during the initial stages of boot, which is pretty important.

[egberts1]

Then there aught to be some kind of fsck (file checking) for journal files.

To forever complain until user intervention is downright silly.

Five separate but disparate hardware does not make for a probable hardware error.

[egberts1]

That's what dmesg is for.

[traverseda]

I'm not sure what you mean? Alpine doesn't have systemd at all.