[Denvercoder9]

> Journalctl has advantages, but they're mostly enjoyed by large enterprises.

I don't agree with this. As a single administrator, being able to do `journalctl -u <service>` and get all output from a unit (and its subprocesses), including anything that it erroneously send to stdout or stderr instead of its logfile, is a godsend. Back in the SysV days I had to manually step through initscripts to figure out what's wrong when a daemon immediately exited without logging anything.

[traverseda]

Sure, but couldn't you get the same advantages is systemd logged to a text file instead of a custom binary format? The advantages is that it's handling stdout, stderr, log creation, log rotation, etc.

I'm not comparing it to sysvinit here, I'm comparing it to any other modern init system.