> Unfortunately, the Linux monoculture sees bash as the only shell, sysv init as the only pre-systemd init, and the poorly configured rsyslogd distros ship with

> Unfortunately, the Linux monoculture sees bash as the only shell, sysv init as the only pre-systemd init, and the poorly configured rsyslogd distros ship with as the only syslog. People like to make fun of Gentoo, but it does many things right. ;) OpenRC and netifrc are sane and flexible. syslog-ng is the "default" syslog and comes with a reasonable default config file. Use of logrotate is strongly recommended, etc, etc, etc.