[exabrial]

> Job output will automatically be written to systemd-journald

This is a bad thing, not something I’d boast about.

I actually really enjoy using systemd. Being able to start a process with complete isolation without heavyweight docker downloading mystery meat off the internet is a huge boon.

However, one thing systemd is logging. Jounalctl sucks. Grep, cat, etc, work infinitesimally better.

[yawaramin]

'Infinitesimally' means 'by a negligible amount'. Which is (accidentally) accurate. There's nothing preventing you from using grep, cat, etc. with the output of journalctl. It's just a tool in the pipeline.

[kaba0]

You can redirect all your logs to traditional string-based ones if you want though.

[exabrial]

Precisely. That's exactly what we end up doing